Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

RR Hernandez, SB Easter, ML Murphy-Mariscal… - … and sustainable energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Renewable energy is a promising alternative to fossil fuel-based energy, but its
development can require a complex set of environmental tradeoffs. A recent increase in …

Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes‐eight hypotheses

T Tscharntke, JM Tylianakis, TA Rand… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological
processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global …

[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 …

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

J Sayer, T Sunderland, J Ghazoul… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing
land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for landscape characterisation and map**: A systematic review

T Simensen, R Halvorsen, L Erikstad - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the multidisciplinary nature of landscape research, many different systems and
methods for landscape identification and classification exist. This paper provides a …

Indicators for monitoring biodiversity: a hierarchical approach

RF Noss - Conservation biology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is presently a minor consideration in environmental policy. It has been regarded
as too broad and vague a concept to be applied to real‐world regulatory and management …

Landscape ecology: the effect of pattern on process

MG Turner - Annual review of ecology and systematics, 1989 - JSTOR
Ecology and natural history have a long tradition of interest in the spatial patterning and
geographic distribution of organisms. The latitudinal and altitudinal distribution of vegetative …

[KNIHA][B] Forest stand dynamics

CD Oliver, BC Larson, CD Oliver - 1996 - chadwick-dearing-oliver.org
FOREST STAND DYNAMICS Page 1 FOREST STAND DYNAMICS UPDATE EDITION Chadwick
D. Oliver Professor of Silviculture College of Forest Resources University of Washington Bruce …

The human footprint and the last of the wild: the human footprint is a global map of human influence on the land surface, which suggests that human beings are …

EW Sanderson, M Jaiteh, MA Levy, KH Redford… - …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Articles sions of 6 billion people add up to a global phenomenon in a way unique to our
time. What we need is a way to understand this influence that is global in extent and yet easy …

[KNIHA][B] Linkages in the landscape: the role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

AF Bennett - 2003 - books.google.com
The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife
management and conservation. Habitat" corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important …