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"Measuring Landscapes introduces a powerful set of concepts and tools, known as landscape metrics, for making conservation and development decisions. These metrics include: patch richness, class area proportion, mean patch size, radius of gyration, contagion, edge contrast, proximity, among oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leitão, Andre Botequilha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Landschaftsschutz
Landscape ecology.
Land use > Planning.
Sustainable development.
Ecological landscape design.
Écologie du paysage.
Utilisation du sol > Planification.
Développement durable.
Aménagement paysager écologique.
sustainable development.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
Ecological landscape design
Land use > Planning
Landscape ecology
Sustainable development
Landnutzungsaufnahme
Landschaftsbewertung
Landschaftsplanung
Landschaftsökologie
Paesaggio > pianificazione > manuali.
Pianificazione territoriale > manuali.
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
LANDSCAPES
ENVIRONMENTS
PLANNING
HANDBOOKS
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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