Landscape ecology , biogeography and GIS methods

بررسی دو شاخص کمی کردن الگوهای چشم‌انداز با استفاده از RS و GIS در منطقه حفاظت شده موته

Landscape ecology as a modern interdisciplinary science offers new concepts, theories, and methods for land evaluation and management. One main part of landscape ecology is describing patterns in the landscape and interpreting the ecological effects of these patterns on flora, fauna, flow of energy and materials. Landscape studies require methods to identify and quantify spatial patterns of lan...

Geographic Information Systems in Biogeography and Landscape Ecology

Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology

Geographic Information tools (GI tools) have become an essential component of research in landscape ecology. In this article we review the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GI tools in landscape ecology, with an emphasis on free and open source software (FOSS) projects. Specifically, we introduce the background and terms related to the free and open source software movement, then ...

Study on the Dynamic Change of Landscape Pattern of Oasis in Arid regions Based on RS and GIS Methods -application of Jinta Oasis

Landscape Ecology is a new field of the macro-ecological research. Study on the Landscape pattern change is a research hotspot of the landscape ecology at present. The main research methods in this paper are stated as follow: using remote sensing data to get the basic landscape pattern data of Jinta Oasis in 1990 and 2000; calculating four landscape indexes by utilizing the statistics function ...

A Landscape Ecology Approach to Assessing Development Impacts’in the Tropics: a Geothermal Energy Example in Hawaii

Geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly being used in environmental impact assessments (EIA) because GIS is useful for analysing spatial impacts of various development scenarios. Spatially representing these impacts provides another tool for landscape ecology in environmental and geographical investigations by facilitating analysis of the effects of landscape pattern on ecological...