Principles and methods in landscape ecology Toward a Science of Land
Principles and methods of landscape ecology are intensively used to model and to manage disturbed landscapes and menaced pristine areas as well. Students and professionals can find a new version of "Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology" firstl
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A/S - Anti-Spoofing. A P-code (Precise Code) from a GPS satellite for military use that can't be received for non-military use Affordance Some characters of objects perceived by organisms with a specific meaning Algorithm A set of rules to produce a computation Almanac Information transmitted by satellites describing the orbit of the GPS satellite Alpha diversity The number of species in a collection Amenity A subjective attribute of landscape based on spiritual values like peacefulness, safety, etc Area-sensitive species Species sensitive to habitat size, that require large stand of the same type Autoecology The ecology of a species Autopoietic capacity The capacity of a system to self-organizing and to maintain a “creative” attitude across homeostatic and homeorhetic responses to changing conditions AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Bajada A broad continuous alluvial slope extending from the base of mountain range to an inland basin in semi-arid and desert regions as in SW US Base station The GPS reference station in which geographical coordinates are known with precision (see differential correction) Basic Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A simple computer program language, generally used by inexperienced computer users Beta Diversity The rate of change in species along a gradient from one habitat to another
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Bighorn A wild sheep Ovis canadensis, living in the western North America Biodiversity The number of species present in a site, the variety of living organisms Bio-semiotics The branch of the semiotic that investigates the cognitive processes Bit map A sequence of bits (i.e. 0/1) on the grid Buffer Transitional area acting as a filter or a mitigator of disturbance processes Cadastral maps Maps at scale of 1:2.000 that describe the bounds of properties, roads and hydrographic net Cantor dust An infinite number of points scattered over an interval after and infinite number of operations. This is produced starting from a unit of which a generator removes at each step the open middle third Climax communities More or less stable communities at the terminal stage of the ecological succession Cluster A group of cells or pixels that are connected each other Coarse grained When a pattern or a mosaic have large components Cognition The level of knowledge of interior and exterior of every organism Cognitive landscape The landscape perceived by cognitive mechanisms Complexity The state of the world in which uncertainty, connection and scaling effects create self-regulating structures Connectedness The physical distance from elements of the same type. Used generally to describe the distance between forest patches Connectivity Functional attribute of connectedness Constellation The spatial arrangement of visible GPS NAVSTAR satellites Contagion A measure of the degree of clumping of land cover or vegetation types Contrast (between patches) Difference in attributes of patches Core habitat The central part of a habitat with very predictable (typical) conditions Corridor A
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