Measuring landscapes a planner's handbook /
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
c2006.
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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.