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Barrell, Jeffrey, and Jon Grant. "High-resolution, low-altitude aerial photography in physical geography." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 39, no. 4 (2015): 440–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133315578943.

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Intertidal landscapes are highly complex and dynamic habitats that exhibit variability over a range of spatial and temporal scales. The spatial arrangement of structure-forming biogenic features such as seagrasses and bivalves influences ecosystem function and the provision of important ecosystem services, though quantification and monitoring of intertidal landscape structure has been hindered by challenges collecting spatial data in the coastal zone. In this study, an intertidal landscape mosaic of eelgrass ( Zostera marina) and blue mussels ( Mytilus edulis) was observed using low-altitude a

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Dickinson, Yvette, Eric K. Zenner, and Douglas Miller. "Examining the effect of diverse management strategies on landscape scale patterns of forest structure in Pennsylvania using novel remote sensing techniques." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44, no. 4 (2014): 301–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2013-0315.

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We used novel remote sensing techniques to compare the landscape-scale patterns of forest structure in Pennsylvania, USA under the management of four different agencies with varying primary objectives, including production forestry, wildlife habitat, recreation, and private ownership. We (i) developed a forest structure classification scheme using publicly available LiDAR and orthographic aerial imagery data, (ii) mapped the forest structure across twenty forested landscapes, and (iii) compared the landscape-scale forest structure patterns among the four forest management types. Our results in

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Ojala, E., M. Mönkkönen, and J. Inkeröinen. "Epiphytic bryophytes on European aspen Populus tremula in old-growth forests in northeastern Finland and in adjacent sites in Russia." Canadian Journal of Botany 78, no. 4 (2000): 529–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b00-023.

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We studied the occurrence and cover of epiphytic bryophytes and one lichen species (Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.) growing on Populus tremula L. trunks. Our aim was to explore the spatial scales where epiphyte species respond to their environment. At the landscape scale, fragmented Finnish old-growth forests close to the Russian border and farther west in a heavily fragmented landscape were compared with Russian sites with more continuous old-growth forest landscapes to assess the effect of landscape structure on epiphyte assemblages. We studied factors affecting populations at the level of i

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Benda, L., D. Miller, and J. Barquín. "Creating a catchment scale perspective for river restoration." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15, no. 9 (2011): 2995–3015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-2995-2011.

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Abstract. One of the major challenges in river restoration is to identify the natural fluvial landscape in catchments with a long history of river control. Intensive land use on valley floors often predates the earliest remote sensing: levees, dikes, dams, and other structures alter valley-floor morphology, river channels and flow regimes. Consequently, morphological patterns indicative of the fluvial landscape including multiple channels, extensive floodplains, wetlands, and fluvial-riparian and tributary-confluence dynamics can be obscured, and information to develop appropriate and cost eff

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Xu, Ming, Ye Qi, Jiquan Chen, and Bo Song. "Scale-dependent relationships between landscape structure and microclimate." Plant Ecology (formerly Vegetatio) 173, no. 1 (2004): 39–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:vege.0000026322.18998.cc.

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Egerer, Monika, and Elsa Anderson. "Social-Ecological Connectivity to Understand Ecosystem Service Provision across Networks in Urban Landscapes." Land 9, no. 12 (2020): 530. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9120530.

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Landscape connectivity is a critical component of dynamic processes that link the structure and function of networks at the landscape scale. In the Anthropocene, connectivity across a landscape-scale network is influenced not only by biophysical land use features, but also by characteristics and patterns of the social landscape. This is particularly apparent in urban landscapes, which are highly dynamic in land use and often in social composition. Thus, landscape connectivity, especially in cities, must be thought of in a social-ecological framework. This is relevant when considering ecosystem

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Mai, Thien T., and Kevin A. Hovel. "Influence of local-scale and landscape-scale habitat characteristics on California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus) abundance and survival." Marine and Freshwater Research 58, no. 5 (2007): 419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf06141.

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For many marine systems, little is known about the effects of habitat structure on ecological processes that dictate population dynamics. This study focused on the effects of habitat structure on behaviour, abundance, and survival of California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus Randall) in the Point Loma kelp forest, San Diego, California. Habitat characteristics were quantified in 400-m2 landscapes to determine the role of shelter and understorey kelp characteristics at local (shelter) scales and landscape scales on lobster habitat use. A tethering experiment determined the effects of the

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Grieve, Stuart W. D., Simon M. Mudd, Martin D. Hurst, and David T. Milodowski. "A nondimensional framework for exploring the relief structure of landscapes." Earth Surface Dynamics 4, no. 2 (2016): 309–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-309-2016.

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Abstract. Considering the relationship between erosion rate and the relief structure of a landscape within a nondimensional framework facilitates the comparison of landscapes undergoing forcing at a range of scales, and allows broad-scale patterns of landscape evolution to be observed. We present software which automates the extraction and processing of relevant topographic parameters to rapidly generate nondimensional erosion rate and relief data for any landscape where high-resolution topographic data are available. Individual hillslopes are identified using a connected-components technique

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O. Festus, Olusola, Wei Ji, and Opeyemi Zubair. "Characterizing the Landscape Structure of Urban Wetlands Using Terrain and Landscape Indices." Land 9, no. 1 (2020): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9010029.

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Several studies have shown human impacts on urban wetlands. These impacts are mostly studied at broad scales, which may generalize and aggregate important information needed for landscape quantification or terrain analysis. This situation can weakly or inappropriately address the structure of wetland landscapes, thus affecting the assessment of the quantities and qualities of terrestrial wetland habitats. To address these issues for urban wetland dynamics, this study proposes the use of landscape and terrain indices to characterize the landscape structure of urban wetlands at a fine scale in o

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Brusak, Vitaliy, and Kateryna Moskalyuk. "The landscape structure of the nature reserve “Medobory”." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography, no. 50 (December 28, 2016): 67–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2016.50.8678.

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Tovtry is a complex of fossil reef Miocene buildings that creates one of the most picturesque scenery of the surrounding plains of Podillya region. Tovtry zone consists of main ridge (the late Baden barrier reef), isolated Tovtry hills (the late Baden bioherms, located east of the ridge), isolated tovtry (the early Sarmat bioherms, located west of the main ridge), the territories of the former channels, lagoons and passes between certain reef masses, the part of which is occupied with the modern rivers. These geological and geomorphological elements are the basis of the definition of Podillian

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Graham, Cameron A., Martine Maron, and Clive A. McAlpine. "Influence of landscape structure on invasive predators: feral cats and red foxes in the brigalow landscapes, Queensland, Australia." Wildlife Research 39, no. 8 (2012): 661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr12008.

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Context Invasive mammalian predators are often associated with fragmented landscapes, and can compound the impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on native fauna. Knowledge of how invasive predators are influenced by different landscape structures can assist in the mitigation of their impacts. Aims The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of landscape structure and site-scale habitat attributes on the frequency of feral-cat and red-fox detections in fragmented agricultural landscapes. Methods Field surveys of the frequency of red-fox and feral-cat visitation at a site s

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Ricotta, Carlo, and Maria Carranza. "Measuring Scale-Dependent Landscape Structure with Rao’s Quadratic Diversity." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2, no. 2 (2013): 405–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2020405.

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Machar, Ivo. "Sustainable Landscape Management and Planning." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (2020): 2354. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062354.

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Dynamic changes of landscape structure affect the abundance and distribution of organisms. Currently, changing land-use is one of the major forces altering ecosystem services in landscapes globally. Human activities are transforming land at a faster rate and greater extent than at any time in history. This is a perspective challenge for research in the field of emerging sustainability science. The human conversion of natural habitats and land use change is not only a local/regional phenomenon but can be considered as one of important global change drivers. Some of the impacts of global change

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Nicasio-Arzeta, Sergio, Isela E. Zermeño-Hernández, Susana Maza-Villalobos, and Julieta Benítez-Malvido. "Landscape structure shapes the diversity of tree seedlings at multiple spatial scales in a fragmented tropical rainforest." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (2021): e0253284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253284.

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The maintenance of seedling diversity of animal-dispersed tree species is fundamental for the structure and function of forest patches in fragmented tropical rainforests. Nonetheless, the effects of landscape structure at different spatial scales on α- and β-diversity of tree seedling communities are recently explored. Using a multi-scale approach, we assessed the relative effect of landscape composition and configuration on α- and β-diversity of animal-dispersed seedlings within 16 forest patches in the Lacandona rainforest, Mexico. We assessed these effects at 13 spatial scales (from 300 to

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Hou, Wei, and Ulrich Walz. "Enhanced analysis of landscape structure: Inclusion of transition zones and small-scale landscape elements." Ecological Indicators 31 (August 2013): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.11.014.

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Egerer, Monika H., Benjamin Wagner, Brenda B. Lin, Dave Kendal, and Kai Zhu. "New methods of spatial analysis in urban gardens inform future vegetation surveying." Landscape Ecology 35, no. 3 (2020): 761–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-00974-1.

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Abstract Context Land use change requires measuring shifting patterns in biodiversity at various spatial scales to inform landscape management. Assessing vegetation change at different scales is challenging in urban ecosystems managed by many individuals. Thus, we do not know much about the structure and function of green spaces that support biodiversity. Objective We aim to understand how vegetation structure and function indicators in urban community gardens vary with spatial scale, applying new and traditional methods in landscape ecology to inform future research and application. Methods W

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Deng, Yi, Ling Cai, and Zhao Xian Gong. "Research on the Urban Landscape System Planning and Layout Based on the Perspective of Ecological Infrastructure." Advanced Materials Research 450-451 (January 2012): 1274–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.450-451.1274.

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As the ecological infrastructure, the development of the ecological function of urban landscapes is determined not only by the reasonable design on its own scale, but also by the interaction of the urban-scaled landscape system. Virtually, the planning and layout of the urban landscape system represent the reasonable position of various projects in the overall landscape structure. The current paper, combined with the landscape ecology theory, put forward the idea primarily determining the distribution of single landscape projects through the priority of single project location, as well as the

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de Almeida Vieira, Fábio, Cristiane Gouvêa Fajardo, Anderson Marcos de Souza, and Dulcinéia de Carvalho. "Landscape-Level and Fine-Scale Genetic Structure of the Neotropical TreeProtium spruceanum(Burseraceae)." International Journal of Forestry Research 2010 (2010): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/120979.

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Knowledge of genetic structure at different scales and correlation with the current landscape is fundamental for evaluating the importance of evolutionary processes and identifying conservation units. Here, we used allozyme loci to examine the spatial genetic structure (SGS) of 230 individuals ofProtium spruceanum, a native canopy-emergent in five fragments of Brazilian Atlantic forest (1 to 11.8 ha), and four ecological corridors (460 to 1 000 m length). Wright's statistic and Mantel tests revealed little evidence of significant genetic structure at the landscape-scale (; , ). At fine-scale S

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Deneu, Benjamin, Maximilien Servajean, Pierre Bonnet, Christophe Botella, François Munoz, and Alexis Joly. "Convolutional neural networks improve species distribution modelling by capturing the spatial structure of the environment." PLOS Computational Biology 17, no. 4 (2021): e1008856. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008856.

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are statistical models suited for learning complex visual patterns. In the context of Species Distribution Models (SDM) and in line with predictions of landscape ecology and island biogeography, CNN could grasp how local landscape structure affects prediction of species occurrence in SDMs. The prediction can thus reflect the signatures of entangled ecological processes. Although previous machine-learning based SDMs can learn complex influences of environmental predictors, they cannot acknowledge the influence of environmental structure in local landscapes (

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Růžičková, Jana, Ferenc Kádár, Ottó Szalkovszki, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, András Báldi, and Zoltán Elek. "Scale-dependent environmental filtering of ground-dwelling predators in winter wheat and adjacent set-aside areas in Hungary." Journal of Insect Conservation 24, no. 5 (2020): 751–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-020-00249-9.

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Abstract Agricultural intensification may act as an environmental filter shaping invertebrate assemblages at multiple spatial scales. However, it is not fully understood which scale is the most influential. Therefore, we utilized a hierarchical approach to examine the effect of local management (inorganic fertilization and soil properties; within-field scale), habitat type (winter wheat field and set-aside field; between-field scale) and landscape complexity (landscape scale) on assemblage structure and functional diversity of two important groups of natural enemies, carabids and spiders, in a

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Burianyk, Olesya, and Anatoliy Melnyk. "Landscape zoning of Skole`s Beskydy." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography, no. 49 (December 30, 2015): 36–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2015.49.8604.

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Historical overview of the development of physical-geographical regionalization of Ukrainian Carpathians and the evolution of ideas about the place and borders of Skole’s Beskydy are shown. According to zoning schemes of Ukrainian Carpathians (Herenchuk, Koynov, Tsys, 1964; Tsys, 1968; Miller, Fedirko, 1990; Miller, 1999; Marinich et al., 2009; Hiletskyy, 2012) Skole’s Beskydy are treated as separate landscape area that consists of landscapes. Based on comparative analysis of physical and geographic (landscape) zoning schemes of Skole’s Beskydy, the results of own landscape mapping of the area

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Lacoeuilhe, Aurélie, Nathalie Machon, Jean-François Julien, and Christian Kerbiriou. "The Relative Effects of Local and Landscape Characteristics of Hedgerows on Bats." Diversity 10, no. 3 (2018): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d10030072.

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The role of hedgerows in maintaining biodiversity in areas of intensive agriculture is well known, particularly for bats. However, few studies have addressed the importance of the intrinsic characteristics of hedgerows for bats and disentangled the relative effects of local and landscape characteristics of hedgerows on bat activity. In an acoustic survey, we assessed bat activity by recording bat calls using detectors and manually verified all calls using spectrogram analysis. The parameters used to determine local hedgerow structures were the length of the line of trees, of shrub hedgerows, o

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Orth, Patricia B., and Patricia L. Kennedy. "Do land-use patterns influence nest-site selection by burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) in northeastern Colorado?" Canadian Journal of Zoology 79, no. 6 (2001): 1038–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z01-071.

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Populations of western burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) are declining. In the Great Plains this decline maybe related to a decline in black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns that the owls use for nest sites. One potential cause of prairie dog decline is conversion of native prairie to agriculture. We predicted that owl-occupied prairie dog towns would be in less fragmented landscapes that contain more prairie then owl-unoccupied prairie dog towns. To test this prediction, we used a geographic information system and spatial analysis metrics to examine the landscape wit

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Nonaka, Etsuko, Thomas A. Spies, Michael C. Wimberly, and Janet L. Ohmann. "Historical range of variability in live and dead wood biomass: a regional-scale simulation study." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37, no. 11 (2007): 2349–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x07-064.

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The historical range of variability (HRV) in landscape structure and composition created by natural disturbance can serve as a general guide for evaluating ecological conditions of managed landscapes. HRV approaches to evaluating landscapes have been based on age-classes or developmental stages, which may obscure variation in live and dead stand structure. Developing the HRV of stand structural characteristics would improve the ecological resolution of this coarse-filter approach to ecosystem assessment. We investigated HRV in live and dead wood biomass in the regional landscape of the Oregon

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Plantegenest, Manuel, Christophe Le May, and Frédéric Fabre. "Landscape epidemiology of plant diseases." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 4, no. 16 (2007): 963–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2007.1114.

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Many agricultural landscapes are characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and fragmentation. Landscape ecology focuses on the influence of habitat heterogeneity in space and time on ecological processes. Landscape epidemiology aims at applying concepts and approaches originating from landscape ecology to the study of pathogen dynamics at the landscape scale. However, despite the strong influence that the landscape properties may have on the spread of plant diseases, landscape epidemiology has still received little attention from plant pathologists. Some recent methodological and technol

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Frelich, Lee. "Forest dynamics." F1000Research 5 (February 17, 2016): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7412.1.

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Forest dynamics encompass changes in stand structure, species composition, and species interactions with disturbance and environment over a range of spatial and temporal scales. For convenience, spatial scale is defined as individual tree, neighborhood, stand, and landscape. Whether a given canopy-leveling disturbance will initiate a sequence of development in structure with little change in composition or initiate an episode of succession depends on a match or mismatch, respectively, with traits of the dominant tree species that allow the species to survive disturbance. When these match, cert

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Papaik, Michael J., Andrew Fall, Brian Sturtevant, et al. "Forest processes from stands to landscapes: exploring model forecast uncertainties using cross-scale model comparison." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40, no. 12 (2010): 2345–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x10-186.

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Forest management practices conducted primarily at the stand scale result in simplified forests with regeneration problems and low structural and biological diversity. Landscape models have been used to help design management strategies to address these problems. However, there remains a great deal of uncertainty that the actual management practices result in the desired sustainable landscape structure. To investigate our ability to meet sustainable forest management goals across scales, we assessed how two models of forest dynamics, a scaled-up individual-tree model and a landscape model, sim

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Sorokina, Liudmila, Alexander Golubtsov, Ivan Baydikov, and Raisa Zarudna. "Information support to gismapping of the landscapes of Ukraine." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography, no. 48 (December 23, 2014): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2014.48.1294.

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The results of the middle-scale geoinformation mapping of landscapes of Ukraine is considered. The structure and methodology of creation of geoinformation system “Landscapes of Ukraine” and its Database is presented. The attention is paid to content of complex and component information about landscapes of Ukraine. The principles of systematization and unification data to filling the Database is observed. It is given the example of presentation with GIS facilities the information on landscape complexes. Key words: geoinformation mapping of landscapes, structure of GIS “Landscapes of Ukraine”, i

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Gorresen, P. Marcos, Michael R. Willig, and Richard E. Strauss. "MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SCALE-DEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BATS AND LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE." Ecological Applications 15, no. 6 (2005): 2126–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/04-0532.

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Latch, Emily K., William I. Boarman, Andrew Walde, and Robert C. Fleischer. "Fine-Scale Analysis Reveals Cryptic Landscape Genetic Structure in Desert Tortoises." PLoS ONE 6, no. 11 (2011): e27794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027794.

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Crawford, Joanne C., Amy Dechen Quinn, David M. Williams, Brent A. Rudolph, Kim T. Scribner, and William F. Porter. "Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of deer in a suburban landscape." Journal of Wildlife Management 82, no. 3 (2018): 596–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21417.

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Norman, Anita J., Astrid V. Stronen, Geir-Arne Fuglstad, et al. "Landscape relatedness: detecting contemporary fine-scale spatial structure in wild populations." Landscape Ecology 32, no. 1 (2016): 181–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-016-0434-2.

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Saenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc, Raymond P. Guries, and Andrew I. Monk. "Landscape genetic structure of Pinus banksiana: allozyme variation." Canadian Journal of Botany 79, no. 8 (2001): 871–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b01-062.

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Many of Wisconsin's jack pine forests originated following fire or agricultural abandonment creating a forest mosaic fragmented by a history of disturbance and past land use. The extent and patterning of genetic diversity at a landscape scale (30 × 30 km) was investigated in 82 natural Pinus banksiana Lamb. (jack pine) stands in Wisconsin using 14 polymorphic allozymes. Most measures of genetic diversity and overall allelic frequencies varied little among these stands, and Reynolds' (coancestry) genetic distances were small (mean = 0.026). Genetic differentiation among stands was limited but s

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Worthen, Wade B., R. Kile Fravel, and Connor P. Horne. "Downstream Changes in Odonate (Insecta: Odonata) Communities along a Suburban to Urban Gradient: Untangling Natural and Anthropogenic Effects." Insects 12, no. 3 (2021): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12030201.

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The community structure of lotic odonates (Insecta: Odonata) changes downstream, but it is difficult to untangle natural and anthropogenic causes. We surveyed larvae and adults at 15 sites along the Reedy River in Greenville Co., SC, USA, from sites in forested suburban landscapes through the urban core of the city of Greenville. We used principal component analyses and Akaike information criteria models to describe the relationships between larval and adult community descriptors (abundance, richness, and diversity) and habitat characteristics at several spatial scales, including water chemist

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Griffey, Vivian, Bryce Kellogg, Ryan Haugo, and Van Kane. "Ownership Patterns Drive Multi-Scale Forest Structure Patterns across a Forested Region in Southern Coastal Oregon, USA." Forests 12, no. 1 (2020): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12010047.

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Research Highlights: We used airborne lidar to assess the multi-scalar patterns of forest structure across a large (471,000 hectare), multi-owner landscape of the Oregon Coast Range, USA. The results of this study can be used in the development and evaluation of conservation strategies focused on forest management. Background and Objectives: Human management practices reflect policy and economic decisions and shape forest structure through direct management and modification of disturbance regimes. Previous studies have found that land ownership affects forest cover, patch dynamics, structure,

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Gonçalves, Leila J. B., Edgar E. Santo-Silva, Maria Fabíola Barros, Kátia F. Rito, Inara R. Leal, and Marcelo Tabarelli. "The palm Syagrus coronata proliferates and structures vascular epiphyte assemblages in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest." Journal of Tropical Ecology 36, no. 3 (2020): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467420000073.

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AbstractThe proliferation of disturbance-adapted species in human-modified landscapes may change the structure of plant communities, but the response of biodiversity to human disturbances remains poorly understood. We examine the proliferation of the palm, Syagrus coronata, in disturbed forest stands and its impacts on the structure of vascular epiphyte assemblages in a human-modified landscape of Brazilian Caatinga dry forest. First, we compared S. coronata density between old-growth and regenerating forest stands. We then surveyed vascular epiphytes on 680 phorophytes (S. coronata and non-pa

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Fu, Bo-jie, and Yi-he Lu. "The progress and perspectives of landscape ecology in China." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 30, no. 2 (2006): 232–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0309133306pp479ra.

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After 20 years of research and application, landscape ecology in China has gained many achievements and established a concrete foundation for further development. The major progress of landscape ecology in China was in the fields of land-use structure and ecological processes, landscape pattern and dynamics analysis, theoretical and methodological development, and landscape ecological applications. Past researches emphasized particularly the theories and applications, while the methodological study accounted for a comparatively small part; urban and suburban landscapes, regional and catchment

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Frolov, A. A. "GIS mapping analysis of the geosystems’ changeability in south-western Transbaikalia." Geodesy and Cartography 956, no. 2 (2020): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22389/0016-7126-2020-956-2-7-17.

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A GIS mapping analysis of the geosystems’ changeability in the Minor Khamar-Daban range site (south-western Transbaikalia) was carried out. At the same time, the landscape structure of the territory was analyzed in the view of dynamic, i.e. the structure of the indigenous and variable states of geosystems reflecting the spatial-and-temporal changeability of landscapes. The source of the actual data is the field research of the territory, in which special attention was paid to the dynamic characteristics of geosystems (relief characteristics, species and age structure of the phytocenosis, anthr

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Miklín, Jan, and Jan Hradecký. "Landscape structure changes at the confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers." Geografie 121, no. 3 (2016): 368–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2016121030368.

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The area at the confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers is one of the biologically most diverse landscapes of Czechia. This paper focuses on its land use/land cover changes, obtained from aerial photographs from 1938, 1953, 1976 and 2009, analyzed by a use of landscape metrics. The most important landscape changes in this period were as follows: (i) an all but complete disappearance of open and structured woodlands; (ii) a transformation of the mosaic of very small agricultural fields into large-scale fields of mostly arable land; (iii) a significant decrease in grasslands; (iv) regulations o

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Bakker, Elisabeth S., Jacquelyn L. Gill, Christopher N. Johnson, et al. "Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 4 (2015): 847–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502545112.

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Until recently in Earth history, very large herbivores (mammoths, ground sloths, diprotodons, and many others) occurred in most of the World’s terrestrial ecosystems, but the majority have gone extinct as part of the late-Quaternary extinctions. How has this large-scale removal of large herbivores affected landscape structure and ecosystem functioning? In this review, we combine paleo-data with information from modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of large herbivores (and their disappearance) on woody species, landscape structure, and ecosystem functions. In modern landscapes char

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Tsafack, Noelline, Simone Fattorini, Camila Benavides Frias, Yingzhong Xie, Xinpu Wang, and François Rebaudo. "Competing Vegetation Structure Indices for Estimating Spatial Constrains in Carabid Abundance Patterns in Chinese Grasslands Reveal Complex Scale and Habitat Patterns." Insects 11, no. 4 (2020): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11040249.

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Carabid communities are influenced by landscape features. Chinese steppes are subject to increasing desertification processes that are changing land-cover characteristics with negative impacts on insect communities. Despite those warnings, how land-cover characteristics influence carabid communities in steppe ecosystems remains unknown. The aim of this study is to investigate how landscape characteristics drive carabid abundance in different steppes (desert, typical, and meadow steppes) at different spatial scales. Carabid abundances were estimated using pitfall traps. Various landscape indice

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DECKERS, B., E. KERSELAERS, H. GULINCK, B. MUYS, and M. HERMY. "Long-term spatio-temporal dynamics of a hedgerow network landscape in Flanders, Belgium." Environmental Conservation 32, no. 1 (2005): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892905001840.

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Although the importance of hedgerows for sustainable agriculture and conservation of rural biodiversity is increasingly being recognized, obtaining insight into the spatial and temporal dynamics of hedgerow networks remains an important challenge for landscape ecologists, with the key factors driving changes in rural landscape structure especially deserving further attention. The present study analyses the long-term history of a hedgerow network landscape in Flanders, Belgium. A detailed reconstruction of the hedgerow network is made at five points in time, starting at the end of the 18th cent

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Pierson, Jennifer C., Fred W. Allendorf, Pierre Drapeau, and Michael K. Schwartz. "Breed Locally, Disperse Globally: Fine-Scale Genetic Structure Despite Landscape-Scale Panmixia in a Fire-Specialist." PLoS ONE 8, no. 6 (2013): e67248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067248.

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Teh, Mohd Zulhaili, Marina Abdullah, Noorsazwan Ahmad Pugi, and Norhafizah Abdul Rahman. "Visual Landscape Assessment : A method for analysing and planning for landscape structure." Asian Journal of Quality of Life 3, no. 14 (2018): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i14.181.

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The landscape is an important national resource an outstanding natural and cultural inheritance which is widely appreciated. This study attempts to evaluate visual landscape of Taiping District in relations to the larger landscape scale in Peninsular Malaysia. A Landscape Character Assessment was conducted on the visual landscape taken for several points in Taiping, Perak and surrounding area to see changes in the landscape. The aim of this study is to provide a visual structure for landscape classification of the Taiping District area that will contribute to the decision making in development

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Teh, Mohd Zulhaili, Noorsazwan Ahmad Pugi, and Norhafizah Abdul Rahman. "Visual Landscape Assessment for Development Landscape Structure: Case study at Taiping, Perak." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 2, no. 5 (2017): 231. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i5.698.

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The landscape is an important national resource outstanding natural and cultural inheritance which is widely appreciated. This study attempts to evaluate visual landscape of Taiping District in relations to the larger landscape scale in Peninsular Malaysia. A Landscape Character Assessment was conducted on the visual landscape taken for several points in Taiping, Perak and surrounding area to see changes in the landscape. The aim of this study is to provide a visual structure for landscape classification of the Taiping District area that will contribute to the decision making in development an

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Hoechstetter, Sebastian, Ulrich Walz, Le Hai Dang, and Nguyen Xuan Thinh. "Effects of topography and surface roughness in analyses of landscape structure - A proposal to modify the existing set of landscape metrics." Landscape Online 3 (February 19, 2008): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3097/lo.200803.

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Topography and relief variability play a key role in ecosystem functioning and structuring. However, the most commonly used concept to relate pattern to process in landscape ecology, the so-called patch-corridor-matrix model, perceives the landscape as a planimetric surface. As a consequence, landscape metrics, used as numerical descriptors of the spatial arrangement of landscape mosaics, generally do not allow for the examination of terrain characteristics and may even produce erroneous results, especially in mountainous areas. This brief methodological study provides basic approaches to incl

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Saatchi, S., Y. Malhi, B. Zutta, et al. "Mapping landscape scale variations of forest structure, biomass, and productivity in Amazonia." Biogeosciences Discussions 6, no. 3 (2009): 5461–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-6-5461-2009.

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Abstract. Landscape and environmental variables such as topography, geomorphology, soil types, and climate are important factors affecting forest composition, structure, productivity, and biomass. Here, we combine a network of forest inventories with recently developed global data products from satellite observations in modeling the potential distributions of forest structure and productivity in Amazonia and examine how geomorphology, soil, and precipitation control these distributions. We use the RAINFOR network of forest plots distributed in lowland forests across Amazonia, and satellite obs

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Benson, L. V., E. R. Griffin, J. R. Stein, R. A. Friedman, and S. W. Andrae. "Mummy Lake: an unroofed ceremonial structure within a large-scale ritual landscape." Journal of Archaeological Science 44 (April 2014): 164–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.021.

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POTTER, K., F. CUBBAGE, and R. SCHABERG. "Multiple-scale landscape predictors of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in North Carolina." Landscape and Urban Planning 71, no. 2-4 (2005): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-2046(04)00028-3.

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Qasem, M., and Adam Prügel-Bennett. "Learning the Large-Scale Structure of the MAX-SAT Landscape Using Populations." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 14, no. 4 (2010): 518–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2009.2033579.

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