Biodiversity planning and design
Subtitle: an issues based case study
By: Andre Botequilha Leitão ... [et al.].
Contributors: Leitão, Andre Botequilha.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Subjects: Landscape ecology.; Land use -- Planning.; Sustainable development.; Ecological landscape design.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Application of landscape metrics to spatial planning and management; title: Introduction; title: The study area; title: Data and methods landscape ecology : a spatial and human oriented ecology; title: Foundations of landscape ecology; title: A landscape perspective; title: Main characteristics of landscape ecology; title: Landscape structure; title: Landscape function; title: Relationships between structure and function; title: Landscape change; title: Quantifying landscape structure; title: What are landscape metrics; title: Patch, class, and landscape level analysis; title: Variability; title: Computing landscape metrics; title: Planning the landscape : a spatial ecological approach; title: Planning and landscape ecology; title: Planning landscape resources; title: A method for sustainable planning; title: Applying landscape metrics to planning; title: Mapping the landscape : some technical issues; title: The selected set of landscape metrics; title: Patch richness (pr); title: Class area proportion (cap); title: Patch number and patch density (pn, pd); title: Mean patch size (mps); title: Shape (shape); title: Radius of gyration (gyrate); title: Contagion (contag); title: Edge contrast (econ); title: Nearest neighbor distance; title: Applications of metrics to planning.