Virtual Reality is gaining momentum and widespread popularity in the field of archaeology in order to support research, education, preservation and reconstruction of sites and objects of cultural, heritage and religious significance. The recent emergence of the Virtual Heritage Network has also promoted the use of VR and associated multimedia technologies in the field of natural and cultural he...

Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In this research, the pattern and variation of urban surface temperature is regarded as one kind of landscape, urban thermal landscape, which is assumed as the presentation of local surfa...

1 University of Rostock, Institute for the Management of Rural Areas, Landscape Ecology and Land Evaluation, Justus von Liebig Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany 2 Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer Straße 88, 17487 Greifswald, Germany 3 University of Göttingen, Landscape Ecology Unit, Institute of Geography, Goldschmidtstraße 5, 37077 Götti...

We use a spatially explicit population model to explore the population consequences of different habitat selection mechanisms on landscapes with fractal variation in habitat quality. We consider dispersal strategies ranging from random walks to perfect habitat selectors for two species of arboreal marsupial, the greater glider (Petauroides volans) and the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus ...

Urban ecological security is the basic principle of national ecological security. However, analyses of the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological security remain limited, especially those that consider different scenarios of urban development. In this study, an integrated method is proposed that combines the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects (CLUE-S) model with the Pressure–State–Resp...

R. Tittler ([email protected]) and L. Fahrig, Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory, Ottawa-Carleton Inst. of Biology, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada. (Present address of R. T.: Centre d’étude de la forêt, Dépt des sciences biologiques, Univ. de Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada.) M.-A. Villard, Chaire de recherche du Canada en conservation des paysage...

L. Song, X. M. Bao, X. J. Liu, Y. Zhang, P. Christie, A. Fangmeier, and F. S. Zhang College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions of the Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi 83...

Planning for sustainable cities is a complex process addressing the fundamental areas of economic, environmental and socially-equitable sustainability. This chapter focuses on the environmental area, with theories, models, and applications illustrating possible spatial configurations of a green infrastructure to support ecological and physical processes in the built environment including: hydro...

The field of landscape ecology is an emerging complex area of study encompassing numerous concepts and principles. Landscapes are intricate systems and must remain balanced if ecosystem collapse is to be avoided. However, habitat fragmentation in landscapes of differing characteristics is threatening to upset such interconnectedness. It is the purpose of this investigation to explore the theory...