About the Book
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Advice for Instructors
I. WHAT IS A LANDSCAPE? BASIC CONCEPTS AND TOOLS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Remote Sensing
Nicholas C. Coops and T. Rory Tooke
Chapter 2: Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis
Jessica L. Morgan, Sarah E. Gergel, Collin Ankerson, Stephanie A. Tomscha and Ira Sutherland
Chapter 3: Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Michelle M. Jackson
II. FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTIFYING LANDSCAPE PATTERN
Chapter 4: Understanding Landscape Metrics
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 5: Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option)
Michael W. Palmer and Daniel J. McGlinn
Chapter 6: Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R)
Robert H. Gardner
Chapter 7: What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R)
Tarmo K. Remmel and Marie-Josée Fortin
III. LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND DISTURBANCE
Chapter 8: Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option)
Dean L. Urban and David O. Wallin
Chapter 9: Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite)
Eric J. Gustafson
Chapter 10: Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 11: Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+)
Monica G. Turner and Martin Simard
IV. APPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION AND ASSESSING CONNECTIVITY
Chapter 12: Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis
Todd R. Lookingbill and Emily S. Minor
Chapter 13: Conservation Planning (with Marxan)
Matthew Watts, Hugh P. Possingham, Carissa J. Klein, Tara G. Martin and Josie Carwardine
Chapter 14: Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor)
Santiago Saura and Begoña de la Fuente
Chapter 15: Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R)
Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert
V. ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS IN SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES
Chapter 16: Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services
Sarah E. Gergel and Tara Reed
Chapter 17: Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes
Kathryn R. Kirby, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and Sarah E. Gergel
Chapter 18: Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape
Jennifer C. Selgrath, Garry D. Peterson, Matilda Thyresson, Magnus Nyström and Sarah E. Gergel
Chapter 19: Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture
Lisa A. Schulte and John C. Tyndall
Chapter 20: Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes
Örjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona.
About the Author: Sarah E. Gergel Associate Professor of Landscape Ecology & Conservation Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada
Monica G. Turner Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and Vilas Research Professor Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI USA
