Department of Zoology
University of Wisconsin
430 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Landscape Ecology Lab
Learning Landscape Ecology
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Overview
This text is a comprehensive collection of landscape ecology laboratory exercises that provides "hands-on" experience in essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis provides an extended overview and reviews.
Table of Contents
Section I. Introduction and Concepts of Scale
Chapter 1: Hierarchy Theory and Concepts of Scale
Robert V. O?Neill and Mark A. Smith
Chapter 2: Collecting Spatial Data at Broad Scales
Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner and David J. Mladenoff
Chapter 3: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Joshua D. Greenberg, Miles G. Logsdon, and Jerry F. Franklin
Section II. Models and Causes of Landscape Pattern
Chapter 4: Introduction to Markov Models
Dean L. Urban and David O. Wallin
Chapter 5: Simulating Changes in Landscape Pattern
Eric J. Gustafson
Chapter 6: Creating Landscape Pattern
Hazel R. Delcourt
Section III. Quantifying Landscape Pattern
Chapter 7: Understanding Landscape Metrics I
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 8: Understanding Landscape Metrics II: Effects of Changes In Scale
Joshua D. Greenberg, Sarah E. Gergel and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 9: Neutral Landscape Models
Robert H. Gardner and Steven Walters
Chapter 10: Scale Detection Using Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms
Michael W. Palmer
Section IV. Disturbance Dynamics
Chapter 11: Landscape Disturbance: Location, Pattern and Dynamics
Monica G. Turner, Daniel B. Tinker, Sarah E. Gergel and F. Stuart Chapin, III
Chapter 12: Multiple Stable States and Landscape Resilience
Garry D. Peterson
Section V. Organism Responses to Landscape Pattern
Chapter 13: Interpreting Landscape Patterns from Organism-based Perspectives
Scott M. Pearson
Chapter 14: Landscape Context
Scott M. Pearson
Chapter 15: Landscape Connectivity and Metapopulation Dynamics
Kimberly A. With
Chapter 16: Individual-based Modeling: The Bachman's Sparrow
John B. Dunning, Jr., David J. Stewart and Jianguo Liu
Section VI. Ecosystem Processes at Broad Scales
Chapter 17: Feedbacks Between Organisms and Ecosystem Processes
Linda L. Wallace and Steve T. Gray
Chapter 18: Modeling Ecosystem Processes
Sarah E. Gergel and Tara Reed-Andersen
Section VII. Applied Landscape Ecology: Integrating Across the Levels
Chapter 19: Reserve Design
Stanley A. Temple and John R. Cary
Chapter 20: Prioritizing Acquisitions for Conservation
Dean L. Urban
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