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Landscape metrics as functional traits in plants: perspectives from a glacier foreland [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Spatial patterns of vegetation arise from an interplay of functional traits, environmental characteristics and chance. The retreat of glaciers offers exposed substrates which are colonised by plants forming distinct patchy patterns. The aim of this study
Tommaso Sitzia +3 more
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Exploratory landscape metrics for agricultural sustainability [PDF]
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2013 Socioeconomic growth and urban change have been an increasing concern for decision makers in recent decades. The monitoring, mapping, and analysis of agricultural land use change, especially in areas where urban change has been high, is crucial.
Nijkamp, Peter +2 more
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Landscape metrics application in ecological and visual landscape assessment [PDF]
Glasnik Šumarskog Fakulteta: Univerzitet u Beogradu, 2017 The development of landscape-ecological approach application in spatial planning provides exact theoretical and empirical evidence for monitoring ecological consequences of natural and/or anthropogenic factors, particularly changes in spatial ...
Gavrilović Suzana +3 more
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Landscape metrics and indices : an overview of their use in landscape research [PDF]
Living Reviews in Landscape Research, 2009 The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at both landscape and ecosystem level.
Antrop, Marc +4 more
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Applying ecological landscape concepts and metrics in urban landscape management
Paisagem e Ambiente, 2016 The concepts of Landscape Ecology applied to urban planning may favor the hierarchical classification of vegetation fragments, identifying the most important ones according to the city zones’ land use.
Bráulio Magalhães Fonseca +2 more
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Landscape metrics for determining landscape prices
, 2009 International audienceThis paper reviews the landscape metrics used in economic valuations of farmland and forest landscapes. The diversity of landscape indicators used in the literature (land use, landscape composition, distance from landscape assets ...
Brossard, Thierry +5 more
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Gradient analysis of landscape pattern in the core area of the “Zhengzhou and Kaifeng Integration” at the landscape level [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 The analysis of landscape pattern change is an effective way to understand urbanization. Research area is the core area of urbanization, which is between Zhengzhou city and Kaifeng city in China.
FAN QINDONG, LIANG LIUKE, LI HU
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Land, 2022 The usual approaches to describing and understanding ecological processes in a landscape use patch-mosaic models based on traditional landscape metrics. However, they do not consider that many of these processes cannot be observed without considering the
Felipe de la Barra +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 The analysis of spatiotemporal changes of landscape patterns is of great significance for forest protection. However, the selection of landscape metrics is often subjective, and existing composite landscape metrics rarely consider the effects of spatial ...
Ying Zhang +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Human activities and environmental degradation have resulted in landscape pattern changes and can eventually profoundly affect net primary productivity (NPP) at different scales worldwide.
Yanyan Zhou +4 more
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