Landscape Ecology and Geographic Information Systems

✍ Scribed by R Haines-Young, David R. Green, S. H. Cousins

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural. Environmental concern has grown in recent years, as a result of public awareness of the detrimental impact industry, transport and tourism can have on the ecosystem. This book examines the role of the new technologies of geographical information systems and remote sensing as media for the study of landscape, as they provide tools of unprecedented power which collect, store, manipulate and analyze data so as to support and assist the decisions which the environmental scientist, ecologist, zoologist and botanist make.; "Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems" is international in scope, provides an overview of operational applications, and offers experiences in the form of case studies of applications to vegetation, animals, and hydrology. The book is organized into four sections. It - provides an overview of the uses of GIS and RSS in landscape ecology; debates conceptual issues such applications throw up; considers analytical techniques and technical issues; and offers experiences in the form of Case Studies On Plant, Abiotic And Animal Landscape Ecology.

✦ Table of Contents

BookCover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgement......Page 12
PART I Introduction......Page 14
1 Landscape ecology and geographical information systems......Page 16
PART II Overviews......Page 22
2 The role of geographic information systems for landscape ecological studies......Page 24
3 Landscape ecology, geographic information systems and nature conservation......Page 38
PART III Conceptual Issues......Page 52
4 The tradition of landscape ecology in Czechoslovakia......Page 54
5 Equilibrium landscapes and their aftermath: spatial heterogeneity and the role of new technology......Page 72
6 Hierarchy in ecology: its relevance to landscape ecology and geographic information systems......Page 89
7 Landscape response units: process-based self-organising systems......Page 103
PART IV Techniques and technical issues......Page 117
8 Problems of sampling the landscape......Page 118
9 A methodology for acquiring information on vegetation succession from remotely sensed imagery......Page 129
10 Landscape structural analysis of central Belgium using SPOT data......Page 149
11 Using cover-type likelihoods and typicalities in a geographic information system data structure to map gradually changing environments......Page 163
12 The use of remote sensing (SPOT) for the survey of ecological patterns, applied to two different ecosystems in Belgium and Zaire......Page 169
PART V Applications......Page 186
13 Managing environmental radioactivity monitoring data: a geographic information system approach......Page 188
14 Using hydrological models and geographic information systems to assist with the management of surface water in agricultural landscapes......Page 206
15 The effects of management on heath and mire hydrology: a framework for a geographic information system approach......Page 236
16 Use of geographic information systems for interpreting land-use policy and modelling effects of land-use change......Page 249
17 Effects of beaver and moose on boreal forest landscapes......Page 266
18 The ecological interpretation of satellite imagery with special reference to bird habitats......Page 285
19 The use of landscape models for the prediction of the environmental impact of forestry......Page 305
Index......Page 317