TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leitao,Andre Botequilha
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Measuring landscapes: a planner's handbook 
AV  - QH541.15.L35 M43 2006eb
U1  - 333.95/16 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Landscape ecology
KW  - Land use
KW  - Planning
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Ecological landscape design
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-236) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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