A Changing World (eBook, PDF)

Challenges for Landscape Research
Redaktion: Kienast, Felix; Ghosh, Sucharita; Wildi, Otto

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Produktbeschreibung

Written primarily for researchers and advanced students in environmental and social sciences, this latest book in Springer's Landscape Series looks at some of the emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research. These include:

• the role of value systems in perceiving, appreciating, and managing landscapes



• the 'space' and 'place' concept in landscape research



• GIS and remote sensing techniques for gathering and processing spatially and temporally explicit land cover, vegetation, and land use data



• methods of landscape history



• landscape genetics and genetic methods to test landscape connectivity and dispersal of plant and animal species



• palaeoclimatic research, with focus on tree ring based temperature reconstructions



• landscape patterns, processes and model up-scaling



• statistical methods for environmental time series and other observations





Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers in landscape ecology, landscape perception, conservation biology, ecological modeling, statistics in the environmental sciences and related fields.



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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402044366
• Artikelnr.: 37347570

Autorenporträt

Felix Kienast, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland / Otto Wildi, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland / Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

Change and Transformation: A Synthesis.- Change and Transformation: A Synthesis.- Value Systems - Major Drivers of Landscape Dynamics.- Value Systems: Drivers of Human-landscape Interactions.- The Role of Value Systems in Biodiversity Research.- The Meaning of "Landscape" - An Exegesis of Swiss Government Texts.- Space and Place - Two Aspects of the Human-landscape Relationship.- Ecological Observations and Processes.- Modern Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring of Landscape States and Trajectories.- A Large-scale, Long-term view on Collecting and Sharing Landscape Data.- On Selected Issues and Challenges in Dendroclimatology.- Using the Past to Understand the Present Land Use and Land Cover.- Integrating Population Genetics with Landscape Ecology to Infer Spatio-temporal Processes.- Landscape Permeability: From Individual Dispersal to Population Persistence.- Spatial Pattern Recognition, Time Series Analysis and Dynamic Modeling.- Identifying and Quantifying Landscape Patterns in Space and Time.- Essay on the Study of the Vegetation Process.- Statistical Analysis of Landscape Data: Space-for-time, Probability Surfaces and Discovering Species.- Memory, Non-stationarity and Trend: Analysis of Environmental Time Series.- Model Up-scaling in Landscape Research.- Dynamic Spatio-temporal Landscape Models.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This latest book in Springer's Landscape Series looks at some of the emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research. ... Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team, this collection provides a valuable reference for researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological modeling, and related fields." (Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment, 2007)

"This book ... provides the scientific community with some eye-opening material by including the importance of social dimensions in the dominant view of modern landscape ecology in North America. ... In conclusion, I found this book very stimulating and valuable for landscape researchers, students and practitioners. I foresee that this text will play an important role in the history of landscape ecology, just like those of pioneer ecologists in the first half of the twentieth century." (Jiquan Chen, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 23, 2008)

"'A Changing World, Challenges for Landscape Research,' ... includes a collection of contemporary hot topics currently studied by Swiss landscape ecologists. ... The book contains papers that address frontier research issues as well as reviews of basic concepts and theories of landscape ecology. In general, the papers are of very good quality and the topics are worthy of publication. ... I can recommend this book to both researchers and students in landscape ecology." (Hong S. He, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 23, 2008)