Learning Landscape Ecology

Sarah E. Gergel Associate Professor of Landscape Ecology & Conservation Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada Monica G. Turner Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and Vilas Research Professor Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI USA

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Advice for Instructors.- Introduction to Remote Sensing.- Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis.- Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change.- Understanding Landscape Metrics.- Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option).- Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R).- What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R).- Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option).- Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite).- Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern.- Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+).- Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis.- Conservation Planning (with Marxan).- Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor).- Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R) Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert.- Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services.- Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes.- Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape.- Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture.- Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes.