Bird count data for southeastern Minnesota were used to compare landscape metric values associated with the occurrence of species from two functional groups. Four forest interior dependent and four non-interior dependent species were assessed. Species included American redstart, Cerulean warbler, Least flycatcher, Woodthrush, Bluewinged warbler, Indigo bunting, Ruby-throated hummingbird, and Wa...

The landscapes are highly dependent on the dynamics of local land use and land cover, which directly affects landscape structure and determines the spatial patterns of forest patches, as well as to the major land uses within a specific region. The calculation of landscape metrics can support the understanding of such spatial distribution. In this study, 16 landscape metrics were analyzed in a d...

A new design framework is introduced for forest structure optimization based on a genetic algorithm landscape encoding and landscape ecology metrics. Landscape ecology is an important interface between the forest management community, which is a traditional user of operations research methods, and the biological conservation community which is relatively new to OR methods and whose goals are in...

introduction “green infrastructure” is a term that describes the abundance and distribution of natural features providing ecological services necessary for community wellbeing specially in urban areas where these are limited. green infrastructure is increasingly espoused by landscape conservation and metropolitan planning because it is an effective way to surrogate ecological network functions ...

The gradient based landscape metrics analysis is now widely used to study the landscape pattern change in respond to urbanization. In order to discover the Beijing metropolitan area landscape pattern spatial and temporal change trends during the past 15 years, several landscape metrics are computed along a 96 km long transect crossing Beijing metropolitan area from west to east. Specially, the ...

Iran has mountainous landscapes and half of its surface is occupied by highlands. Moreover, Iran is an arid country and deserts are located at lower altitudes. Most metropolitan areas are positioned in mid-altitudes between mountain and desert. Cities grow upwardly toward the highlands under pressures of urbanization and desertification. Foothill ecotones are a zone between upland mountains and...

Landscape metrics rely on classifications of remote sensing data, and errors inherent to the classification scheme will be propagated into any spatial pattern results. This issue is compounded for metrics derived from sub-pixel unmixing techniques, since a universal method for assessing the certainty of these soft classifications has not yet been accepted. This study investigates the role of su...