This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics
involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including …

The recent and ever-growing problem of boar (Sus scrofa forms including wild boar, hybrid
and feral pig) expansion is a very complex issue in wildlife management. The damages …

The scientific production on rural depopulation has grown in recent years. However, a global
picture of the research carried out on this topic does not exist. The aim of this study is to …

The Mediterranean area is one of the most significantly altered hotspots on Earth, since it
has been intensively affected by human activity for millennia. As a result, only 4.7% of its …

Landscape metrics are widely used to investigate the spatial structure of landscapes.
Numerous metrics are currently available, yet only little empirical research has …

Remote sensing represents a powerful tool to derive quantitative and qualitative information
about ecosystem biodiversity. In particular, since plant species richness is a fundamental …

Spatial heterogeneity has an important influence on a wide range of ecological patterns and
processes, and many landscape metrics in GIS environment are used to facilitate the …

Analyses of land-use cover changes (LUCC) are fundamental to the understanding of
numerous social, economical and environmental problems and can be carried out rapidly …

Land cover is one of the most important conditioning factors in landslide susceptibility
analysis. Usually it is considered as a static factor, but it has proven to be dynamic, with …

This study aims to demonstrate the relationships between residential development and the
spatio-temporal dynamics of land use patterns in the case of the southern coast of Turkey …