Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

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)

V.                ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS IN SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES

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