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Landscape ecology and geographic information systems Landscape ecology and geographic information systems Edited by Roy Haines-Young David R.Green Steven Cousins Taylor & Francis London • New York • Philadelphia 1993 UK Taylor & Francis Ltd, 4 John St, London WC1N 2ET USA Taylor & Francis Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol PA 19007 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Ltd 1993 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photo copying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-39303-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-39586-7 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-7484-0002-8 (Print Edition) (cloth) ISBN 0-7484-0252-7 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data are available Cover design by Amanda Barragry derived from original artwork ‘LANDSCAPE’ by E.G.Green Contents Contributors vii 1 PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Landscape ecology and spatial information systems 3 R.Haines-Young, D.R.Green and S.Cousins 9 PART II OVERVIEWS 2 The role of geographic information systems for landscape ecological studies 11 D.A.Stow 3 Landscape ecology, geographic information systems and nature 25 conservation P.B.Bridgewater 39 PART III CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 4 The tradition of landscape ecology in Czechoslovakia 41 J.R.Petch and J.Kolejka 5 Equilibrium landscapes and their aftermath: spatial heterogeneity and the 59 role of the new technology C.J.Lavers and R.H.Haines-Young 6 Hierarchy in ecology: its relevance to landscape ecology and geographic 76 information systems S.Cousins 7 Landscape response units: process-based self-organising systems 90 F.Perez-Trejo 104 PART IV TECHNIQUES AND TECHNICAL ISSUES 8 Problems of sampling the landscape 105 A.R.Harrison and R.Dunn 9 A methodology for acquiring information on vegetation succession from 116 remotely sensed imagery D.R.Green, R.Cummins, R.Wright and J.Miles 10 Landscape structural analysis of central Belgium using SPOT data 136 H.Gulinck, O.Walpot and P.Janssens 11 Using cover-type likelihoods and typicalities in a geographic information 150 system data structure to map gradually changing environments T.F.Wood and G.M.Foody 12 The use of remote sensing (SPOT) for the survey of ecological patterns, 156 applied to two different ecosystems in Belgium and Zaire R.Goossens, T.Ongena, E.D’Haluin and G.Larnoe 173 PART V APPLICATIONS 13 Managing environmental radioactivity monitoring data: a geographic 175 information system approach I.Heywood and S.Cornelius 14 Using hydrological models and geographic information systems to assist 193 with the management of surface water in agricultural landscapes R.A.MacMillan, P.A.Furley and R.G.Healey 15 The effects of management on heath and mire hydrology: a framework for a 223 geographic information system approach A.M.Gurnell, P.J.Edwards and C.T.Hill 16 Use of geographic information systems for interpreting land-use policy and 236 modelling effects of land-use change R.Aspinall 17 Effects of beaver and moose on boreal forest landscapes 253 C.A.Johnston, J.Pastor and R.J.Naiman 18 The ecological interpretation of satellite imagery with special reference to 272 bird habitats G.H.Griffiths, J.M.Smith, N.Veitch and R.Aspinall 19 The use of landscape models for the prediction of the environmental impact 292 of forestry C.Lavers, R.Haines-Young and M.Avery Index 304 Contributors R.Aspinall Division of Land Use Research, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB9 2QJ, UK P.B.Bridgewater Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service Head Office, GPO Box 636, Canberra, ACT 2601, Construction House, 217 North Bourne Avenue, Turner ACT 2601, Australia S.Cousins International Ecotechnology Research Centre, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK R.Cummins Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Hill of Brathens, Banchory, UK R.Dunn Department of Geography, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK P.J.Edwards Geodata Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK G.M.Foody Department of Geography, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK P.A.Furley Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK R.Goossens Laboratory for Regional Geography and Landscape Science, State University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281 (S8-A1), B-9000, Ghent, Belgium D.R.Green Centre for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK G.H.Griffiths 18 Cobden Crescent, Oxford, OX1 4LJ, UK H.Gulinck Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, B-3030 Leuven, Belgium A.M.Gurnell Geodata Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK R.Haines-Young Department of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK E.D’Haluin Laboratory for Regional Geography and Landscape Science, State University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281 (S8-A1), B-9000 Ghent, Belgium A.R.Harrison Department of Geography, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK R.G.Healey Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK I.Heywood Department of Geography, The University, Salford M5 4WT, UK C.T.Hill Geodata Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK P.Janssens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, B-3030, Leuven, Belgium C.A.Johnston Natural Resources GIS Laboratory (NRGIS), Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, 5031 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811, USA J.Kolejka Department of Environmental Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska, 2, 61137 BRNO, Czechoslovakia G.Larnoe Laboratory for Regional Geography and Landscape Science, State University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281 (S8-A1), B-9000, Ghent, Belgium C.J.Lavers Department of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK R.A.MacMillan Alberta Research Council, PO Box 8330, Postal Station F, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 5X2, Canada J.Miles Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Hill of Brathens, Banchory, UK R.J.Naiman Centre for Streamside Studies, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA T.Onega Laboratory for Regional Geography and Landscape Science, State University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281 (S8-A1), B-9000, Ghent, Belgium J.Pastor Natural Resources GIS Laboratory (NRGIS), Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, 5031 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811, USA F.Perez-Trejo International Ecotechnology Research Centre, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK J.R.Petch Department of Geography, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK D.A.Stow Department of Geography and Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA N.Veitch ITE, Monkswood Experimental Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, PE17 2LS, UK O.Walpot Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, B-3030 Leuven, Belgium T.F.Wood MVA Systematica, MVA House, Victoria Way, Woking, Surrey GU21 1DD, UK R.Wright Centre for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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