Quantitative Methods in Landscape Ecology: The Analysis and Interpretation of Landscape Heterogeneity

Landscape ecology as a modern interdisciplinary science is increasingly making use of quantitative research techniques adopted from other fields. Until now, no synthetic reference has been available to those wishing to acquaint themselves with new approaches to quantitative analysis of spatial heterogeneity at the landscape level. This book seeks to meet this need by providing a conceptual framework and illustrating potential applications for methods such as pattern analysis, spatial statistics, fractals, spatial modeling, broad-scale studies, and extrapolation across scale. Each technique is discussed in sufficient detail to be adaptable to a variety of research problems. QuantitativeMethods in Landscape Ecologywill be an important resource for researchers and students of landscape and ecosystem ecology, as well as related areas of geography and biology, in understanding and analyzing the dynamics of complex spatial systems. ^Remmert, Hermann is the author of 'Quantitative Methods in Landscape Ecology: The Analysis and Interpretation of Landscape Heterogeneity', published 1992 under ISBN 9780387973265 and ISBN 0387973265.