Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493963724 ISBN 13: 9781493963720

Publisher: Springer, 2017

About this title

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

From the Back Cover

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. 

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. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493963724
• ISBN 13: 9781493963720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Gergel Sarah E., Turner Monica G.