A new landscape ecology mapping scheme for coastal environments : Galveston Island, Texas /
(GIS), aerial photograph maps were created and classified
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (GIS), aerial photograph maps were created and classified 1980 to 1995. This research shows that land use / land cover and then were reclassified using the patch - matrix - and wind tidal flat corridors at the margins of the island. areas and patterns of change. From 1980 to 1995, Galveston by urban development has changed the shape of the salt marsh classification systems provide a useful prerequisite to Comparing these maps from several time periods highlights corridor model of landscape ecology. These maps provide a cover and landscape ecological classification systems should ecological mapping of the landscape. This research combines feet over the last 15 years. Additionally, this encroachment focuses on different aspects of the landscape, and when used from 1980 to 1995. Using a geographic information system fundamental to detecting and monitoring change. Currently no geomorphological mapping to develop a landscape ecological Increasing urban development on barrier islands has driven interest in the environmental change of barrier islands. Island experienced a 5% increase in urban area so that it landscape ecological mapping. However, the land use / land mapping methodology. The mapping scheme has been developed to mapping scheme can effectively integrate geomorphological and marsh areas became thinner and more convoluted in shape from not be mutually exclusive. Each classification system occupies nearly the same total area as the nonforested of development and even isolates portions of the salt marsh of landscape ecology to understand the complete picture of of salt marsh which experienced a loss of 50 million square patches. According to an area-to-perimeter comparison, salt temporal-based, spatial sununary of landscape change. the changing environment of a barrier island. Mapping is the fundamental concepts of landscape ecology and The urban expansion has taken place primarily at the expense this environmental change, this thesis applies the concepts together, they provide a powerful tool for land management. understand the landscape change of Galveston Island, Texas urbanization perforates the non-forested wetland with patches wetland matrix of Galveston Island. This increased Whereas other research has focused on individual elements of with a level I Anderson land use / land cover classification, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Geography". Six plates in pocket. Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 113 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 107-112. |