SUBJECT
Title
Landscape ecology
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
1
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Theory
- The origin of landscape ecology, definitions
- Foundation of landscape ecology: concepts arising from the interconnection of contributing disciplines
- Basic concepts in landscape ecology originitaing from ecology: the special interpretation of scale, patterns and processes, context dependence
- Data sources in landscape ecology: biotic data, abiotic background, remote sensing, data of human influemce
- Descriptive landscape ecology: thematic maps, interpretation of remotely sensed dara, landscape history, traditional ecological knowledge
- Landscape pattern analysis: approaches, indices, neutral models
- Modelling in landscape ecology: spatial predictive models, dynamic models, spatially explicit dynamic models
Practicals
- Recognising landscape history from archive sources and in the field
- Data collection for landscape ecology (maps, GPS)
- Analyses in landscape ecology using GIS
- Data visualisation
- Table management
- Digitasing field data
- Combination of data sources for analyses
- Data collection design
Readings
- Turner, M. G., R. H. Gardner, and R. V. O’Neill. (2001): Landscape ecology in theory and practice. Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 978-0-387-21694-2
- Farina, A. (2000): Landscape ecology in action. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht. ISBN 978-94-011-4082-9
- Hansson, L., Fahrig, L., Merriam, G. (eds.) (1995): Mosaic landscapes and ecological processes, Chapman and Hall, London.ISBN 978-94-011-0717-4