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ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS
Resources
Listed
below, by the type of resource and then the topic/theme, are suggested additional
resources for this unit. This list is a guide only, which is meant to assist
you in finding additional information on particular topics or themes of interest.
Useful
books that can be found in CDU library
Concepts -
Landscape ecology
- *Forman,
R.T.T. and Godron, M. (1986). Landscape ecology. John Wiley and Sons,
Canada.
- *Forman,
R.T. (1995). Land mosaics: the ecology of landscape and regions. Cambridge
University Press.
- Naveh,
Z and Lieberman, A.S (1984). Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application.
Springer Verlag, NY.
- Bissonette,
J.A. (ed) (1997). Wildlife and Landscape Ecology: Effects of Pattern and
scale. Springer-Verlag, NY Inc.
- Finlayson,
C.M. and von Oertzen I. (eds) (1996). Landscape and Vegetation Ecology
of the Kakadu Region, Northern Australia. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
The Netherlands.
- Ludwig
J. et al. (eds) (1997). Landscape Ecology: Function and Management. Principles
from Australia's Rangelands. CSIRO, Australia.
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Technical
- GIS and RS
- DeMers,
M. (1997). Fundamentals of GIS. John Wiley and Sons Inc.
- Burrough,
P. and McDonnell, R. (1997). Principles of GIS. Oxford Uni Press
- Campbell,
J.B. (1996). Introduction to Remote Sensing. Taylor and Francis.
- Avery,
T.E. and Berlin, G.L. (1992). Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Air photo
Interpretation. Macmillan. Canada.
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Applications
- Frohn,
R.C. (1998). Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology. Lewis publishers,
Florida, USA.
- Johnston,
C.A. (1998). Geographic Information Systems in Ecology. Blackwell Science,
Oxford, UK.
- Grimson
Lyon, J.and McCarthy, J. (1995). Wetlands and Environmental Applications
of GIS. CRC Press.
*One copy
of each of these books should be available on short term loan in the CDU Library
which can be used by Darwin students.
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Useful
web sites
This is
a list of some useful web sites which can provide supplementary information
to this unit.
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Corridors
Island
biogeography
Scale
- Scale
Considerations for Ecosystem Management
http://www.fs.fed.us/eco/st16.htm
discusses the importance of determining appropriate scales for successful
ecosystem management, looks at spatial and temporal scales
Quantifying landscape structure
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GIS
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Remote sensing
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Wetland
management using GIS
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Rangeland
management using GIS and RS
- CSIRO
- Remote sensing of Central Australian Desert
CD ROM - F:\home\DESHOME.HTM
CD ROM presentation of how CSIRO are using remote sensing and GIS in the management
of the central Australian desert. Available in the grin library.
- Using remote sensing to manage North Dakota's rangelands
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/streeter/98report/mips.htm
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Landscape
ecology and GIS
- Modeling
Land-Cover Change From Measures of Spatial Landscape Structure
Miles G. Logsdon
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/SANTA_FE_CD-ROM/sf_papers/logsdon_miles/my_paper.html
Paper describing the use of GIS and measures of landscape structure to investigate
land cover change in Northern Brazil.
- The Land-Use Change Analysis System (LUCAS)
for Evaluating Landscape Management Decisions
Michael W. Berry, Richard O. Flamm, Brett C. Hazen - Rhonda L. MacIntyre
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~lucas/publications/ieee/ieee.html
Paper illustrating the importance of including socio-economic factors
in a spatially explicit landscape change model.
- National Gap analysis Program - A Geographic
Approach to Planning for Biological Diversity
http://gapanalysis.nbii.gov/portal/community/GAP_Analysis_Program
/Communities/GAP_Home/
Discussion of the gap analysis program in the US - land cover mapping
program across the US using GIS to identify gaps in the reserve system
- Detecting Critical Scales in Fragmented Landscapes
Timothy H. Keitt1, 2 Dean L. Urban3 Bruce T. Milne1
http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol1/iss1/art4/inline.html#author
Paper discussing the development of a method to quantify habitat connectivity
at multiple scales to assign conservation status to patches based on
their connectivity. Looks at landscape pattern as scale dependant.
- Landis
http://www.landis-ii.org/
Discussion of the LANDIS model which simulates forest landscape change
over long periods of time. Has an ArcView interface.
- Linking GIS with Models for Endangered Species
http://www.ramas.com/santafe.htm
paper linking discussing the a model which links GIS to models for viability
analysis and risk assessment to endangered species - integrating landscape
data and assessing human impacts on wildlife.
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- A
Multi-Scale Study of the Spread of Alien Species into the Native Forests of
Windward East Maui
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/~robyn/plan.html
Discussion of Phd project outline to look at spread of alien species in forests
Hawaii using a landscape and systems ecology approach
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