Aerial photography for assessing vegetation change: a review of applications and the relevance of findings for Australian vegetation history

RJ Fensham, RJ Fairfax - Australian Journal of Botany, 2002 - CSIRO Publishing
Studies attempting to calibrate vegetation attributes from aerial photography with field data
are reviewed in detail. It is concluded that aerial photography has considerable advantages …

[CARTE][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 …

[CARTE][B] Landscape ecology in theory and practice

MG Turner, RH Gardner, RV O'neill, RV O'Neill - 2001 - Springer
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 …

Landscape change patterns in mountains, land use and environmental diversity, Mid-Norway 1960–1993

EGA Olsson, G Austrheim, SN Grenne - Landscape ecology, 2000 - Springer
The Norwegain mountains have had a central role in the subsistence agroecosystems by
providing vast biological resources for humans and their livestock since 4000–3500 BP as …

Satellite based land use and landscape complexity indices as predictors for regional plant species diversity

O Honnay, K Piessens, W Van Landuyt… - Landscape and urban …, 2003 - Elsevier
It is known that habitats composed of spatially heterogeneous abiotic conditions provide a
great diversity of potentially suitable niches for plant species. The scientific premises of …

Analysing land-cover changes in relation to environmental variables in Hesse, Germany

E Hietel, R Waldhardt, A Otte - Landscape ecology, 2004 - Springer
Land-use and land-cover changes affect ecological landscape functions and processes.
Hence, landscape ecologists have a central interest in a comprehensive understanding of …

Modelling of landscape changes derived from the dynamics of socio-ecological systems: A case of study in a semiarid Mediterranean landscape

I De Aranzabal, MF Schmitz, P Aguilera, FD Pineda - Ecological indicators, 2008 - Elsevier
Europe's cultural landscape has undergone notable changes in the last few decades. In
particular, conserving the cultural rural landscape of the Mediterranean basin constitutes a …

Assessing conservation status on coastal dunes: a multiscale approach

M Carboni, ML Carranza, A Acosta - Landscape and urban planning, 2009 - Elsevier
Coastal dune systems are particularly fragile and threatened environments, which, however,
provide fundamental ecosystem services to nearby urban areas acting for example as …

[CARTE][B] Recent dynamics of the Mediterranean vegetation and landscape

S Mazzoleni, G Di Pasquale, M Mulligan, P Di Martino… - 2004 - books.google.com
The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional
practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the …

Plant diversity, biogeography and environment in Iberia: patterns and possible causal factors

R Benayas, M José, SM Scheiner - Journal of Vegetation …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We associated patterns of plant diversity with possible causal factors by considering 93 local
regions in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands with respect to biogeography …