Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 2 pp 111-119 (1992) (2008)
Spb Academic Publishing, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Yoko Ohta
On Shimokamagari, an island of the Island Sea, patterns of vegetation in the landscape were studied using vegetation maps. Relationships between social and economic changes, site conditions and the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 3 pp 183-193 (1992) (2008)
Spb Academic Publishing, J. Lauga, J. Joachim
this paper, namely those most dependent on woodland: 1. the robin (Erithacus 2. the song thrush philomelos), 3. the firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus), 4. the chaffinch Together with these four...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. pp 29-39 (1991) (2008)
Very little attention has been paid to the impact of global warming, especially sea level rise, on coastal despite the fact that these provide natural protection along many of the world's...
Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 2 pp 115-127 (1996) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, James R. Miller, Linda A. Joyce, Richard L. Knight, Rudy M. King
areas on public lands may serve as environmental baselines against which human-caused impacts on landscape structure can be measured. We examined landscape structure across a gradient of road...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 3 pp (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Domenica Manicacci, Isabelle Olivieri, Anne Atlan, Pierre-henri Gouyon, Jean-marie Prosperi, ...
Distribution of genetic diversity in a landscape depends on both within and among population processes. Selective pressures within populations have traditionally been studied by population genetics,...
Landscape Ecology vol. 11 no. 1 pp 27-38 (1996) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, W. L. Schwarz, G. P. Malanson, F. H. Weirich
The nature of sediments in abandoned channels is an important component of their development as flood- plain wetlands. The texture, organic matter, phosphorous, potassium, and nitrogen content of...
Landscape Ecology vol. no. pp (1990) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Lucinda B. Johnson
In ecological studies the recent emphasis on larger study areas over longer time spans has coincided with the development of geographical information systems GISs are a set of computer hardware and...
Landscape Ecology vol. 2 no. 4 pp 215-226 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Franqoise Burel
Analysis of carabids spatial distribution in a hedgerow network landscape in western France, pinpoints the role of the landscape among other levels of ecological organization. Dispersion of forest...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 3 pp 1 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Gcrard Balent, Bernard Courtiade
The new trends in agricultural policy in Western Europe conduct to new management problems in maintain- ing and utilizing biological resources. In the South-Western France, the evolution of...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 2 pp 79-88 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Luca Ongaro, Ro Pignatti
A vegetation and rangeland survey has been carried out in the lower Shabelle region, Southern Somalia, with the aim of evaluating the natural vegetation as a source of forage for grazing animals. In...
Landscape Ecology vol. 11 no. 5 pp 289-297 (1996) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Vilis Nams
Fractal measurements of animal movement paths have been used to analyze how animals view habitats at different spatial scales. One problem has been the absence of error estimates for fractal d...
Landscape Ecology vol. 4 nos. 2/3 pp 99-108 (1990) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Krzysztof Dmowski, Michal Kozakiewicz
A pine forest was separated from a lake littoral zone by a meadow on one area (discontinuous) while these habitats were separated by a shrub strip in another area (continuous). This shrub strip acted...
Landscape Ecology vol. 5 no. 1 pp 21-38 (1990) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Martin J. Wassen, Aat Barendregt, Paul P. Schot, Boudewijn Beltman
The effect of regional, subregional and local groundwater flow systems on mesotrophic fen ecosystems was studied in the polders of the Vecht River plain that borders the Pleistocene ice-pushed...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 1 pp 37-46 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, R. O. Flamm, M. G. Turner
Two stochastic model formulations, one using pixel-based transitions and the other patch-based, were com- pared by running simulations where the amount of information on which transitions were based...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 1 pp 7-23 (1994) (2007)
Landscapes were mapped as clusters of 2 or 3 land cover** types, based on their pattern within the clusters and tendency for a single type to dominate. These landscapes, called Landscape Pattern...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 1/2 pp 77-87 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, P. Vestergaard
Recordings by the Danish Meteorological Institute show, that the mean temperature of Denmark has re- mained fairly constant and the mean precipitation in winter has increased very slightly during the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 8 no. 4 pp 273-286 (1993) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Bernard P. Zeigler, Lee A. Graham
A multi-scale spatial ecological model of a wet sclerophyllous forest subject to recurrent fires is presented. The model is specified in a DiscreteEvent Systems framework (DEVS) (Zeigler,...
Landscape Ecology vol 12 no 2 pp 117-125 (1997) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, B. Verboom, H. Huitema
The relation between two species of the pipistrelle (Pipistrelluspipistrellus (Schreber, 1774)) and the serotine (Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774)) and linear landscape elements such as...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 3 pp 191-205 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Mark A. White, David J. Mladenoff
We conducted a multi-temporal spatial analysis of forest cover for a 9600 ha landscape in northern Wiscon- sin, U.S.A., using data from pre-European settlement post-settlement and current (1989)...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 2 121-128 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Teri B. Bennett, Paul Neville, Clifford S. Crawford, Bruce T. Milne, ...
We estimated the ecological and economic impact of urban turfgrass production in a large city. A satellite image was used to evaluate the turfgrass area of Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. Turfgrass,...
Landscape Ecology vol. 8 no. 1 pp 19-24 (1993) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Michal Kozakiewicz, Anna Kozakiewicz, Aleksy Tukowski, Tomasz Gortat
Movements of bank voles (Clethrionomysglareolus)were studied in a farmland mosaic in Poland. Distances crossed by animals in short-time periods are significantly longer in heterogenous than in...
Landscape Ecology vol. 12 no. 2 pp 77-93 (1997) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Kenneth Tucker, Stephen P. Rushton, Roy A. S, Elaine B. Martin, John Blaiklockl
Models to predict the breeding distribution of three species of birds in north-east England are described. The models readily available data from the ornithological literature on the habitat...
Landscape Ecology vol. 2 no. pp 45-61 (1988) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Louis R. Iverson
The Illinois Geographic Information System was used to compare the soil and landscape attributes of the State with its historic vegetation, current land use, and patterns of land-use change over the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 5 pp 277-289 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Ra Lavorel, Robert H. Gardnery, Robert V. O’neil
This paper uses a spatial model of the dispersal of annual plants in hierarchical ran- dom maps to extend the investigation of the inter- action between landscape pattern and dispersal...
Landscape Ecology vol. 2 no. 4 pp (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, H. H. Shugart
A succession model for mixed evergreen forests of the southern Cape, South Africa, called OUTENIQUA, was developed based on one for subtropical rain forest in New South Wales, Australia. The model...
Landscape Ecology 6 no. 3 pp 175-181 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Yannick Delettre, Paul Trchen, Patrick Grootaert
This study investigatesthe impact of landscape heterogeneity on community structure and population dynam- ics in two families of Diptera (Empididae and Chironomidae). Adult emergence is compared with...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. pp 45-53 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Peter M. Groffman, James M. Tiedje, Delbert L. Mokma, Stephen Simkins
Large scale analyses of biogeochemical processes are necessary for understanding anthropogenic effects on global climate and environmental quality. Regional scale estimates of denitrification from...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 4 pp 293-303 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Stanley H. Anderson
Island biogeographers have predicted that in oceanic systems, oblong islands oriented perpendicular to the dispersal paths of organisms should intercept more species and individuals than (1) circular...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 2 pp 147-149 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Craig Loehle
radius. C will indeed be dubious if data are recorded so fre- quently that the animal is still standing and chewing at both t and t + At. For C to be useful, At must be sufficiently large so that...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 2 pp 117-125 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Christina L. Knight, John M. Briggs, M. Duane Nellis
To determine the dynamics of the spatial extent of gallery forest on Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA), aerial photographs taken over a 46 year time frame were digitized into anARC-INFO...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 2 pp (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Julia E. Hammett
this paper, historical documents are used to study spatial aspects of regional vegetation dynamics in the Southeastern United States during the early period of European contact. Various recent theo-...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 1 pp 59-77 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme
Crown fires create broad-scale patterns in vegetation by producing a patch mosaic of stand age classes, but the spread and behavior of crown fires also may be constrained by spatial patterns in...
Landscape Ecology vol. 3 no. 2 pp 97-109 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Walter E. Westman, Laurence L. Strong, Bruce A. Wilcox
Initial results of a pilot study to link remotely-sensedinformation on tropical forest loss to field-based infor- mation on species endangerment are reported here. LANDSAT multispectral scanner (MSS)...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 1/2 pp 99-103 (1991) (2007)
The possible effects of climatic change for the avifauna in the dunes, especially in the Netherlands, were ana- lyzed with two different approaches. It is concluded that although there will be an...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 3 pp 143-159 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, William L. Baker
The structure of landscapes subject to patch-forming catastrophic disturbances, or "disturbance land- scapes", is controlled by the characteristics of the disturbance regime, including the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 1 pp 3-18 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Rocio Fern, Ez Ales, Angel Martin, O Ortega, Enrique E. Ales
Recent economic development has altered landscape structure and function of a mediterranean region in Southwestern Spain. Intensive agricultural systems have concentrated in the more fertile areas,...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 4 pp 221-231 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Xiaoming Zou, Corinna Theiss, Burton V. Barnes
Studies of the endangered Kirtland's warbler in relation to landscape ecosystems were conducted from 1988 on a large wildfire-burn surrounding Mack Lake in southeastern Oscoda County, Michigan....
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 4 pp 271-278 (1994) (2007)
A methodology using fractals to measure vegetation complexity in three regions of Alaska is presented. Sub- jective, binomial (0 = simple, 1 = complex)classifications of the complexity of mapped...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 4 pp 191-196 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, J. Bastow Wilson, Warren Mcg King
Switches are processes in which there is positive feedback between vegetation and environment. Landscape features can be created and modified by switches. The concept has previously been used with...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 2 pp 85-99 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Nancy E. Mcintyre
The effects of landscape patchiness on the diversityof birds of the Georgia Piedmont were investigated during 1993. Birds were sampled along line transects within relatively large (10-13.25 ha) and...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 2 pp (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Lennart Hansson
Clearcutting is the main method of harvesting boreal forests, to some extent mimicking natural disturbances by fire and wind-felling. Effects of clearcutting on vertebrate fauna in managed forests...
Landscape Ecology vol. 5 no. 4 pp 203-217 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Lawrence A. Leitner, Christopher P. Dunn, Glenn R. G~ntenspergen, Forest Stearns, David M. Sharpe
The presettlement tree cover (1831 -33) of 3 townships in a southern Wisconsin landscape was analyzed using original survey records. Four forest types were identified: closed forest, open forest,...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 2 pp 113-120 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Barbara J. Benson, Mark D. Mackenzie
We examined the effects of increasing grain size from 20 m to 1100m on landscape parameters characterizing spatial structure in the northern Wisconsin lake district. We examined whether structural...
Landscape Ecology vol. 3 3/4 pp 207-216 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Robert Rosen
An exceptionally rich and colorful literature, drawn in almost equal parts from pure mathematics, from the sciences, and from the technologies, has grown up over the years, which bear in different...
Landscape Ecology vol. 3 no. 2 pp 67-86 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Isaak S. Zonneveld
The land unit, as an expression of landscape as a system, is a fundamental concept in landscape ecology. It is an ecologically homogeneous tract of land at the scale at issue. It provides a basis for...
Landscape Ecology vol. 5 no. 3 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, R. Goossens, G. Larnoe
This paper deals with the problem of the detectability of the field pattern and the associated linear elements in the Kempenland (Belgium) using SPOT multispectral imagery. The SPOT images are...
Landscape Ecology vol. 5 no. 3 pp 145-162 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Kees J. Canters
The Landscape-ecological Mapping of the Netherlands project (LMN project) started in 1983 with the aim of establishing a landscape-ecologicaldatabase for use in developing and evaluating national...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 3 pp 161-176 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Kimberly E. Medley, Brian W. Okey, Gary W. Barrett, Michael F. Lucas, William H. Renwick
Specialized cash grain production, emergent in the midwesternUnited States during the post-WWII era, typi- fies the Upper Four Mile Creek watershed in southwestern Ohio. This style of agriculture...
Landscape Ecology vol. 3 no. 1 pp 43-51 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Ladislav Miklos
Development of the general ecological model (EM) of the CSSR has been included in the state program for environmental policy - the Ecoprogramme of the CSSR - at a scale of :1 000 000 for the entire...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 3 pp 181-194 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, William L. Baker
this article is to review the process of natural disturbance, particularly large disturbances, and the problems in designing and managing nature reserves in order to perpetuate this process and the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 2 no. 3 pp 191-199 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Marybeth Buechner
Interest in the influence of landscape features on animal movement has been widespread; however, few field studies of the emigration of small mammals from patches of habitat directly consider the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 4 pp 259-268 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, W. Z. Lidicker, J. O. Wolff, L. N. Lidicker, M. H. Smith
This study describes the demographic features of a population of Sigmodon hispidus utilizing the habitat mosaic provided by a Carolina Bay on the Atlantic coastal plain of South Carolina. A total of...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 1/2 pp 15-27 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, L. Wartena, D. Veenhuysen
Extremely important to the climate in any region are the radiation balance and the exchange processes of heat, water vapour and momentum. Most climatological parameters temperature, humidity, wind...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 4 pp 239-253 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Lars L. Pierce, Steven W. Running
The use of large grid cell databases to to drive nonlinear ecosystem process models may create an incompatibility of scales which can often lead to biased outputs. Global simulations of net primary...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 2 pp 101-111 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, R. Maureen Hulshoff
The data set of a human modified Dutch landscape was used to evaluate whether landscape pattern indices developed in the United States are fit to describe a Dutch landscape. The grid based data set...
Landscape Ecology vol. 2 no. 2 pp 73-80 (1989) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Eduardo R. Fuentes, Reinaldo Avilcs, Ro Segura
TheChilean Intermediate Depression to the north of Santiago has experienced a physiognomical transforma- tion from a Prosopis chilensiswoodland to anAcacia caven savanna. Today P. chilensistrees are...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 4 pp (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Alain Leducl, Yves T. Prairie, Yves Bergeron
Although often seen as a scale-independent measure, we show that the fractal dimension of the forest cover of the Cazaville Region changes with spatial scale. Sources of variability in the estimation...
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 4 pp 249-260 (1994) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, J. Alan Yeakley, Ron A. Moen, David D. Breshears, Martha K. Nungesser
Ecosystem models typically use input temperature and precipitation data generated stochastically from weather station means and variances. Although the weather station data are based on- measurements...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 6 pp 363-379 (1995) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Aaron Moody, Curtis E. Woodcock
Statistical analyses provide a means for assessing relationships between landscape spatial pattern and errors in the estimates of cover-type proportions as land-cover data are aggregated to coarser...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 4 pp 253-274 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Wales (u. K
Remotely-sensed satellite data from TM and MSS were processed digitally to make landscape clas- sifications of three study areas of south east Wales. The classifications were constructed by...
Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 1 37-45 (1987) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Ervin H. Zube
Land use patterns and land form are important sources of information that contribute to the formation of landscape perceptions and values. This paper discusses three concepts of human-landscape...
Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 2 pp 85-94 (1987) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, L. Ryszkowski, A. Kqdziora
In long term studiesthe followingclimatological characteristics were measured or calculated: air and soil tem- perature, sunshine, wind speed, vapor pressure, saturation deficit, precipitation,...
Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 3 pp 195-209 (1992) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Robert W. Russell, George L. Hunt, Kenneth Coyle, R. Ted Cooney
Spatial relationships between predators and prey have important implications for landscape processes and patterns. Highly mobile oceanic birds and their patchily distributed prey constitute an...
Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 4 pp 213-226 (1988) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Frederick R. Steiner, Douglas A. Osterman
A working method for landscape planning is proposed. There are 11 steps in this method. In step one, an issue (or set of related issues) is identified as posing a problem or an opportunity to people...
Landscape Ecology vol. 4 no. 4 pp 225-236 (1990) (2007)
The relation between landscape and recreation is very complex. There are various, interrelated approaches to analyze this relation, such as land evaluation, impact analysis, spatial behaviour...
Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 2 pp 107-117 (1987) (2007)
In the practical application of landscape ecology to development planning it is essential that there be interdis- ciplinary collaboration. Three ways of developing this collaboration are discussed....
Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 4 pp 237-248 (1994) (2007)
Timber harvesting affects both composition and structure of the landscape and has important consequences for organisms using forest habitats. A timber harvest allocation model was constructed that...
Landscape Ecology vol. 12 no. 2 pp 63-76 (1997) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Rachel J. Collins, Gary W. Barrett'k
This study examined the effects of habitat fragmentation on meadow vole (Microtuspennsylvanicus) popula- tion dynamics in experimental landscape patches. The study was conducted from May-November...
Landscape Ecology vol. 5 no. 3 pp 163-174 (1991) (2007)
Spb Academic Publishing, Kirk A. Maloney, Antoine Morinl, Simon A. Levin
The analysis of spatial patterns is fundamental to understanding ecological processes across geographic scales. Through an analysis of two simple, one-dimensional stochastic models, we develop a...
Landscape Ecology vol. 10 no. 3 pp 133-142 (1995) (1995)
A dozen general principles of landscape and regional ecology are delineated to stimulate their evaluation, refinement, and usage. Brief background material and a few references provide into the...
Landscape Ecology vol. 6 no. 4 pp 251-258 (1992) (1992)
Spb Academic Publishing, William W. Hargrove, John Pickering
We question whether classical experimentation is adequate for real progress in landscape or regional ecology.