Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Remmel, Tarmo K. (Editor), Perera, Ajith H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1493973290 ISBN-13: 9781493973293 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
Dewey: 333.7 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.44 lbs) 326 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book explores the concepts, premises, advancements, and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping techniques. After several decades of development and use, these tools can now be examined for their foundations, intentions, scope, advancements, and limitations. When applied to natural forest landscapes, mapping techniques must address concepts such as stochasticity, heterogeneity, scale dependence, non-Euclidean geometry, continuity, non-linearity, and parsimony, as well as be explicit about the intended degree of abstraction and assumptions. These studies focus on quantifying natural (i.e., non-human engineered) forest landscape patterns, because those patterns are not planned, are relatively complex, and pose the greatest challenges in cartography, and landscape representation for further interpretation and analysis. |