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| Other authors / contributors: | Gergel, Sarah E., editor.
Turner, Monica Goigel, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781493963744
1493963740
9781493963720
1493963724
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 6, 2017).
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Learning landscape ecology. Second edition. New York, NY : Springer, 2017 1493963724 9781493963720
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6374-4
10.1007/978-1-4939-6
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