An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics

DS Boyd, GM Foody - Ecological informatics, 2011 - Elsevier
This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics
involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including …

The boar war: five hot factors unleashing boar expansion and related emergency

D Fulgione, M Buglione - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The recent and ever-growing problem of boar (Sus scrofa forms including wild boar, hybrid
and feral pig) expansion is a very complex issue in wildlife management. The damages …

Worldwide trends in the scientific production on rural depopulation, a bibliometric analysis using bibliometrix R-tool

R Rodríguez-Soler, J Uribe-Toril, JDP Valenciano - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The scientific production on rural depopulation has grown in recent years. However, a global
picture of the research carried out on this topic does not exist. The aim of this study is to …

Human activity impact on the heterogeneity of a Mediterranean landscape

F Geri, V Amici, D Rocchini - Applied geography, 2010 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean area is one of the most significantly altered hotspots on Earth, since it
has been intensively affected by human activity for millennia. As a result, only 4.7% of its …

Multiscale performance of landscape metrics as indicators of species richness of plants, insects and vertebrates

S Schindler, H von Wehrden, K Poirazidis, T Wrbka… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Landscape metrics are widely used to investigate the spatial structure of landscapes.
Numerous metrics are currently available, yet only little empirical research has …

Effects of spatial and spectral resolution in estimating ecosystem α-diversity by satellite imagery

D Rocchini - Remote sensing of Environment, 2007 - Elsevier
Remote sensing represents a powerful tool to derive quantitative and qualitative information
about ecosystem biodiversity. In particular, since plant species richness is a fundamental …

Land cover and land use change in the Italian central Apennines: A comparison of assessment methods

R Pelorosso, A Leone, L Boccia - Applied geography, 2009 - Elsevier
Analyses of land-use cover changes (LUCC) are fundamental to the understanding of
numerous social, economical and environmental problems and can be carried out rapidly …

Towards a core set of landscape metrics for biodiversity assessments: a case study from Dadia National Park, Greece

S Schindler, K Poirazidis, T Wrbka - Ecological indicators, 2008 - Elsevier
Spatial heterogeneity has an important influence on a wide range of ecological patterns and
processes, and many landscape metrics in GIS environment are used to facilitate the …

Variations in the susceptibility to landslides, as a consequence of land cover changes: A look to the past, and another towards the future

L Pisano, V Zumpano, Ž Malek, CM Rosskopf… - Science of The Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land cover is one of the most important conditioning factors in landslide susceptibility
analysis. Usually it is considered as a static factor, but it has proven to be dynamic, with …

A landscape analysis of land cover change in the Municipality of Rome (Italy): Spatio-temporal characteristics and ecological implications of land cover transitions from …

R Frondoni, B Mollo, G Capotorti - Landscape and Urban planning, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents a landscape analysis of land cover change in the Municipality of Rome
from 1954 to 2001. The overall objective of the analysis is to characterise the temporal and …