a r t i c l e i n f o Avian biodiversity is threatened, and in order to prioritize limited conservation resources and conduct effective conservation planning a better understanding of avian species richness patterns is needed. The use of image texture measures, as a proxy for the spatial structure of land cover and vegetation, has proven useful in explaining patterns of avian abundance and spec...

Landscape pattern metrics are widely used for predicting habitat and species diversity. However, the relationship between landscape pattern and species diversity is typically measured at a single spatial scale, even though both landscape pattern, and species occurrence and community composition are scale-dependent. While the eff ects of scale on landscape pattern are well documented, the eff ec...

The behavior of several landscape pattern metrics were tested against various pattern scenarios generated by neutral landscape models, including number of classes, scale-map extent, scale-resolution, class proportion, aggregation level—RULE, and aggregation level—SimMap. The results demonstrate that most of the metrics are sensitive to certain pattern scenarios, yet are not sensitive to others;...

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...

An important objective of nearly all EAM initiatives is the standardization and consolidation of the IT landscape. This can be seen on several levels, e.g. on the application landscape level, the software level, the hardware level, etc. This paper presents a stepwise approach for consolidating IT landscapes on the technology, software and hardware level which considers the specifics of large IT...

Since shape metrics emerged in the landscape ecology as a new tool for quantitative evaluation of a landscape, it has become easier for geocomputation methods in GIS to adopt theirs principles. Nevertheless, there are still different scientific opinions about the usefulness of shape metrics. The paper describes shape metrics application for Corine Land Cover 1990, 2000 and 2006 areas (CLC) anal...

investigation of the sensitivity of these measurements to clasCalcuiation of landscape metrics from land-cover data is besification error (Hess, 1994). he objectives of this paper are coming increasingly common. Some studies have shown that two-fold: (1) to determine the sensitivity of landscape these measurements are sensitive to differences in land-cover metrics to land-cover misclassificatio...

identification of rapid degradation of ecological resources requires effective environmental monitoring including ecological integrity assessment .our first aim is to analyze ecological integrity in a landscape context while developing a method to assess integrity in spite of a dearth of historical data. we used a spatial-temporal reference framework for land cover maps for assessing ecological...