Although a number of digital terrain analysis techniques were developed since the early 90ies terrain information is not utilized enough in landscape research even if topography is a key variable in a wide range of environmental processes. One explanation of this situation is the two-dimensionality of the main paradigm in landscape ecology, namely the patch-corridor-matrix model. Calculations o...

NRS 534: Ecology of Fragmental Landscapes Yuyu Zhou Spring 2005 Overview Connectivity refers to the degree to which a landscape facilitates or impedes ecological flows such as the movement of organisms among habitat patches and therefore the rate of movement among local populations in a metapopulation (McGarigal et al. v3). Although connectivity is important in landscape ecology, there is no pr...

agricultural landscapes with the green veins and forests patches are forming many parts of european landscapes. in spite of many ecological, economic and agricultural advantages of these elements, they have been changed due to agricultural intensification. we studied changes of these elements, their relations with agricultural activities, farming systems and land use of the adjacent parcel in t...

With economic growth and the improvement of the urbanization level, human activities have constantly interfered with landscape patterns, resulting in serious threats to regional ecological security. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the evolution and optimization of the landscape patterns. Based on three TM images from 1990, 2000, and 2010, and selected landscape pattern indexes, ...

Nature conservation is increasingly based on a landscape approach rather than a species approach. Landscape planning that includes nature conservation goals requires integrated ecological tools. However, species differ widely in their response to landscape change. We propose a framework of ecologically scaled landscape indices that takes into account this variation. Our approach is based on a c...

Restoring forest to hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded land has become a centerpiece of international plans to sequester carbon and conserve biodiversity. Forest landscape restoration will require scaling up ecological knowledge of secondary succession from small-scale field studies to predict forest recovery rates in heterogeneous landscapes. However, ecological field studies reveal ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly being used in environmental impact assessments (EIA) because GIS is useful for analysing spatial impacts of various development scenarios. Spatially representing these impacts provides another tool for landscape ecology in environmental and geographical investigations by facilitating analysis of the effects of landscape pattern on ecological...