Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation

RM Ewers, RK Didham - Biological reviews, 2006 - cambridge.org
Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: what is the state of the art?

EJ Gustafson - Ecosystems, 1998 - Springer
Landscape ecology is based on the premise that there are strong links between ecological
pattern and ecological function and process. Ecological systems are spatially …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

MG Turner - 2001 - lepicolea.wordpress.com
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

[BOOK][B] Invasion ecology

JL Lockwood, MF Hoopes, MP Marchetti - 2013 - books.google.com
This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

[PDF][PDF] FRAGSTATS help

K McGarigal - University of Massachusetts: Amherst, MA, USA, 2015 - researchgate.net
Landscape ecology, if not ecology in general, is largely founded on the notion that
environmental patterns strongly influence ecological processes (Turner 1989). The habitats …

[BOOK][B] Remote sensing for sustainable forest management

SE Franklin - 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
As remote sensing data and methods have become increasingly complex and varied-and
increasingly reliable-so have their uses in forest management. New algorithms have been …

Landscape pattern metrics

K McGarigal - Encyclopedia of environmetrics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Real landscapes contain complex spatial patterns in the distribution of resources that vary
over time; quantifying these patterns and their dynamics is the purview of landscape pattern …

Landscape indicators of human impacts to riverine systems

SE Gergel, MG Turner, JR Miller, JM Melack… - Aquatic sciences, 2002 - Springer
Detecting human impacts on riverine systems is challenging because of the diverse
biological, chemical, hydrological and geophysical components that must be assessed. We …

Quantifying landscape structure: a review of landscape indices and their application to forested landscapes

R Haines-Young, M Chop** - Progress in physical …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
An important assumption of many environmental decisions is that some patterns or
combinations of land cover are optimal or more preferable to others. Management plans fre …

[BOOK][B] Forest ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques

A Newton - 2007 - books.google.com
Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …