Measuring landscapes : a planner's handbook /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Leitão, Andre Botequilha
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Landscape ecology. Land use > Planning. Sustainable development. Ecological landscape design.

Table of Contents:

Landscape ecology : a spatial and human-oriented ecology
Foundations of landscape ecology
A landscape perspective
Main characteristics of landscape ecology
Quantifying landscape structure
Planning the landscape : a spatial ecological approach
Planning and landscape ecology
Planning landscape resources
A method of planning for sustainability
Applying landscape metrics in planning
The selected set of landscape metrics
Patch richness (PR)
Class area proportion (CAP)
Patch number (PN) and patch density (PD)
Mean patch size (AREA_MN, AREA_AM)
Shape (SHAPE)
Radius of gyration (GYRATE)
Contagion (CONTAG)
Edge contrast (ECON)
Euclidian nearest neighbor distance (ENN)
Proximity (PROX)
Applications of landscape metrics in planning and management
Recommendations on the use of landscape metrics to support the planning of sustainable landscapes.