Measuring landscapes : a planner's handbook /
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| Imprint: | Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2006. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 245 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11165090 |
Table of Contents:
- Landscape ecology : a spatial and human-oriented ecology
- Foundations of landscape ecology
- A landscape perspective
- Main characteristics of landscape ecology
- Quantifying landscape structure
- Planning the landscape : a spatial ecological approach
- Planning and landscape ecology
- Planning landscape resources
- A method of planning for sustainability
- Applying landscape metrics in planning
- The selected set of landscape metrics
- Patch richness (PR)
- Class area proportion (CAP)
- Patch number (PN) and patch density (PD)
- Mean patch size (AREA-MN, AREA-AM)
- Shape (SHAPE)
- Radius of gyration (GYRATE)
- Contagion (CONTAG)
- Edge contrast (ECON)
- Euclidian nearest neighbor distance (ENN)
- Proximity (PROX)
- Applications of landscape metrics in planning and management
- Recommendations on the use of landscape metrics to support the planning of sustainable landscapes.