ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS

Readings

Theme 1

Reading 1.1
Forman, R.T.T. (1995). Land Mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions Cambridge University Press. Preface.

Reading 1.2
Urban, D.L., O'Neill, R.V. and Shugart, H.H. (1987). Landscape ecology: A hierarchical perspective that can help scientists understand spatial pattern. Bioscience. 37(2), 119-127.

Reading 1.3
Bissonette, J.A. (1997). Scale sensitive ecological properties. In Bissonette, J.A. (ed). (1997). Wildlife and Landscape Ecology: Effects of pattern and scale. Springer-Verlag, New York Inc. pp3-31.

Reading 1.4
Forman, R.T.T. and Godron, M. (1981). Patches and structural components for a landscape ecology. Bioscience. 31(10), 733-740.

Reading 1.5
Haines-Young, R. and Chopping, M. (1996). Quantifying landscape structure: a review of landscape indices and their application to forested landscapes. Progress in Physical Geography. 20(4), 418-445.

Reading 1.6
O'Neill, R.V., Hunsaker, C.T., Timmins, S.P., Jackson, B.L., Jones, K.B., Riitters, K.H., and Wickham, J.D. (1996). Scale problems in reporting landscape pattern at the regional scale. Landscape ecology. 11(3), 169-180.

Reading 1.7
Turner, M.G. (1989). Landscape ecology: The effect of pattern and process. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20, 171-197.

Reading 1.8
Forman, R.T.T. (1995). Land Mosaics: The ecology of landscapes and regions. Cambridge University Press. Part 1. Pp2-40.

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Theme 2

Reading 2.1
Goodchild, M.F. and Quattrochi, D.A. (1997). Scale, multiscaling, remote sensing and GIS. The importance of Scale. In Quattrochi, D.A. and Goodchild, M.F. (eds). (1997). Scale in remote sensing and GIS. CRC Press Inc. USA. pp1-6.

Reading 2.2
Burrough, P.A. and McDonnell, R.A. (1998). Principles of Geographical Information Systems. Oxford University Press. Chapter 9. Errors and Quality Control. pp220-240.

Reading 2.3
Aspinall, R.J. and Pearson, D.M. (1995). Chapter 6 - Describing and managing uncertainty of categorical maps in GIS. In Fisher, P. (ed). (1995). Innovations in GIS 2. Taylor and Francis. pp77-84.

Reading 2.4
Goodchild, M.F. (1994). Integrating GIS and remote sensing for vegetation analysis and modeling: methodological issues. Journal of Vegetation Science. 5, 615-626.

Reading 2.5
Johnston, C. (1998). Geographic Information Systems in Ecology. Blackwell Science. Chapter 10 - Modelling and GIS. pp185-201.

Reading 2.6
Stoms, D.M., Davis, F. W. and Cogan, C.B. (1992). Sensitivity of Wildlife Habitat models to uncertainties in GIS data. PERS. 58(6), 843-850.

Reading 2.7
Griffiths, G.H., Lee, J. and Eversham, B.C. (2000). Landscape pattern and species richness; regional scale analysis from Remote Sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21(13&14), 2685-2704.

Reading 2.8
Harrison, B.A., Walker, J., Jupp, D.L.B., Reece, P, Harland, P., Penridge, L.K. and Bryne, G. (1987). Land cover modelling in Kakadu National Park. 4th Australasian remote sensing conference proceedings Vol 1, pp171-177.

Reading 2.9
Aspinall, R. and Veitch, N. (1993). Habitat mapping from satellite imagery and wildlife survey data using a Bayesian modelling procedure in a GIS. PERS. 59(4), 537-543.

Reading 2.10
Russell-Smith, J., Ryan, P.G. and Durieu, R. (1997). A Landsat MSS-derived fire history of Kakadu National Park, monsoonal northern Australia, 1980-94 seasonal extent, frequency and patchiness. Journal of Applied Ecology. 34. 748-766.

Reading 2.11
Ji, W., Johnston, J.B., McNiff, M.E. and Michell, C. (1992). Knowledge-based IS: an expert system approach for managing wetlands. Geo. Info Syst. 2, 60-64

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