Learning Landscape Ecology - 2nd Edition by Sarah E Gergel & Monica G Turner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book meets a demand for training in spatial analysis tools. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which decision-making often occurs. As the world tackles issues related to sustainability and global change, the need for this broad perspective has increased. Furthermore, spatial data and spatial analyses (core methods in landscape ecology) are critical for analyzing land-cover changes worldwide. While spatial dynamics have long been fundamental to terrestrial conservation strategies, land management, and reserve design, mapping and spatial themes are increasingly recognized as important for ecosystems management in aquatic, coastal, and marine systems. --<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>TABLE OF CONTENTS</b></p> <p>Preface</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Advice for Instructors</p> <p><b>I. </b><b>WHAT IS A LANDSCAPE? BASIC CONCEPTS AND TOOLS</b> <p/> </p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction to Remote Sensing</p> <p>Nicholas C. Coops and T. Rory Tooke</p> <p>Chapter 2: Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis</p> <p>Jessica L. Morgan, Sarah E. Gergel, Collin Ankerson, Stephanie A. Tomscha and Ira Sutherland</p> <p>Chapter 3: Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change </p> <p>Jeffrey A. Cardille and Michelle M. Jackson</p> <p><b>II. </b><b>FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTIFYING LANDSCAPE PATTERN</b></p> <p>Chapter 4: Understanding Landscape Metrics</p> <p>Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner</p> <p>Chapter 5: Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option)</p> <p>Michael W. Palmer and Daniel J. McGlinn</p> <p>Chapter 6: Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R)</p> <p>Robert H. Gardner</p> <p>Chapter 7: What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R)</p> <p>Tarmo K. Remmel and Marie-Josée Fortin</p> <p><b>III. </b><b>LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND DISTURBANCE</b></p> <p>Chapter 8: Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option)</p> <p>Dean L. Urban and David O. Wallin <p/> </p> <p>Chapter 9: Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite)</p> <p>Eric J. Gustafson</p> <p>Chapter 10: Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern</p> <p>Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner</p> <p>Chapter 11: Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+) <p>Monica G. Turner and Martin Simard</p> <p><b>IV. </b><b>APPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION AND ASSESSING CONNECTIVITY</b></p> <p>Chapter 12: Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis<b></b></p> <p>Todd R. Lookingbill and Emily S. Minor</p> <p>Chapter 13: Conservation Planning (with Marxan)</p> <p>Matthew Watts, Hugh P. Possingham, Carissa J. Klein, Tara G. Martin and Josie Carwardine</p> <p>Chapter 14: Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor) </p> <p>Santiago Saura and Begoña de la Fuente</p> <p>Chapter 15: Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R)</p> Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert <p><b>V. </b><b>ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS IN SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES</b></p> Chapter 16: Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services<p></p> <p>Sarah E. Gergel and Tara Reed</p> <p>Chapter 17: Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes</p> <p>Kathryn R. Kirby, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and Sarah E. Gergel</p> <p><br> Chapter 18: Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape</p> <p>Jennifer C. Selgrath, Garry D. Peterson, Matilda Thyresson, Magnus Nyström and Sarah E. Gergel</p> <p>Chapter 19: Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture</p> <p>Lisa A. Schulte and John C. Tyndall</p> <p>Chapter 20: Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes</p> Örjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which decision-making often occurs. As the world tackles issues related to sustainability and global change, the need for this broad perspective has only increased. Furthermore, spatial data and spatial analysis (core methods in landscape ecology) are critical for analyzing land-cover changes world-wide. While spatial dynamics have long been fundamental to terrestrial conservation strategies, land management and reserve design, mapping and spatial themes are increasingly recognized as important for ecosystem management in aquatic, coastal and marine systems. <br>This second edition is purposefully more applied and international in its examples, approaches, perspectives and contributors. It includes new advances in quantifying landscape structure and connectivity (such as graph theory), as well as labs that incorporate the latest scientific understanding of ecosystem services, resilience, social-ecological landscapes, and even seascapes. Of course, as before, the exercises emphasize easy-to-use, widely available software.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"As with the previous edition, the volume is designed around teaching, including structured exercises and a very helpful guide to designing specific courses of study relating to applied aspects of landscape ecology, from conservation and forestry to sustainable management of landscapes and watersheds. It is also supported by free software and data, now provided online. If you study or teach landscape ecology, you need this book." (Erle C. Ellis, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 93 (2), June, 2018)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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<br>Monica G. Turner Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and Vilas Research Professor Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI USA<br>
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