The incorporation of landscape ecological and fragmentation analyses within remote
sensing science has expanded the inferential capabilities of such research. This issue …

Current studies of land cover change and landscape fragmentation rely predominantly on
land cover classifications derived from remotely sensed images. However, limitations of …

Landscapes are spatial mosaics of interacting biophysical and socioeconomic components
that provide living space for mankind. A landscape can be described by its composition and …

Landscape ecology has generated much excitement in the past two decades. One reason
was that it brought spatial analysis and modeling to the forefront of ecological research …

Landscape ecology focuses on the analysis of spatial pattern and its relationship to
ecological processes. As a scientific discipline, landscape ecology has grown rapidly in …

Investigating the ecological consequences of urbanization require knowledge of land-cover
dynamics. Quantification of land-use/land-cover change in Phoenix, Arizona during the …

Landscape ecology has made tremendous progress in recent decades, but as a rapidly
developing discipline it is faced with new problems and challenges. To identify the key …

The relationship between trajectories of forest-cover change and the biophysical and social
characteristics of the landscape in the mountains of Western Honduras is addressed. Metrics …

In the last few years, landscape researchers have sought to understand temporal and spatial
patterns of landscape changes in order to develop comprehensive models of land cover …

Land-change science has emerged as a foundational element of global environment
change and sustainability science. It seeks to understand the human and environment …