Course Meeting Times
Lecture : Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 am
Lab: Wednesday 1:00 - 4:00 pm
All meetings will be in KRC 127
Course Syllabus and Schedule
Schedule of Discussion Moderators
Lab Handouts
Lecture notes:
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Optional Textbooks :
No textbook is required for this course. If readings are required from textbooks, the relevant book sections will be copied for your use. However, you may find the following texts to be useful background material:
Gergel, S.E. and M.G. Turner. 2002. Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concept and Techniques. New York , Springer-Verlag. 316 pp.
Turner, M. G., Gardner, R. H., O'Neill, R. V. 2001. Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process. New York , Springer-Verlag. 404 pp.
Wiens, J . and Moss, M. 2005. Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press. 390 pp.
Wu, J . and R. Hobbs. 2007. Key Topics in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , UK .
Required readings from the primary literature:
Akcakaya, H.R., V. Radeloff, D. J. Mladenoff, and H.S. He. 2004. Integrating landscape and metapopulation modeling approaches: Viability of the Sharp-tailed grouse in a dynamic landscape. Conservation Biology 18:526-537.
Allen, CD, M Savage, DA Falk, KF Suckling, TW Swetnam, T Schulke, PB Stacey, P Morgan, M Hoffman, and J T Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of Southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: a broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12: 1418-1433.
Baker et al. 2007. Fire, fuels and restoration of ponderosa pine-Douglas fir forests in the Rocky Mountains, USA . Journal of Biogeography 34: 251–269.
Baker W.L., and Shinneman, D. J . 2004. Fire and restoration of pinyon-juniper woodlands in the western United States : a review. Forest Ecology and Management 189:1-21
Berling-Wolff, S. and J. Wu. 2004. Modeling urban landscape dynamics: A case study in Phoenix, USA. Urban Ecosystems 7: 215-240.
Cissel, John H., Swanson, Frederick J., and . Weisberg, Peter J. 1999. Landscape management using historical fire regimes: Blue River, Oregon. Ecological Applications 9: 1217-1231.
Diggle, P. J. 2003. Statistical analysis of spatial point patterns. 2 nd Ed. London: Arnold Press.
Fahrig, L. 2003. Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 34: 487-515.
Fahrig 2007. Non-optimal animal movement in human-altered landscapes. Functional Ecology 21: 1003–1015.
Fortin, M.- J.-. 1999. Spatial statistics in landscape ecology. Pages 253-279 in J. M. Klopatek and R. H. Gardner, editors. Landscape ecological analysis: issues and applications. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Franklin, J . 1995. Predictive vegetation mapping: geographic modelling of biophysical patterns in relation to environmental gradients. Progress in Physical Geography 19: 474-499.
Gaona, P., Ferreras, P., and M. Delibes. 1998. Dynamics and viability of a metapopulation of the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus). Ecol. Mono. 68: 349-370.
Gustafson, E. J. 1998. Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: what is the state of the art? Ecosystems 1: 143-156.
Hanski, I. 1994. A practical model of metapopulation dynamics. J . Animal Ecology 63:151-162.
Hanski 1998. Metapopulation dynamics. Nature 396: 41.
Harrison and Bruna 1999. Habitat fragmentation and large-scale conservation: what do we know for sure? Ecography 22: 225-232.
He, H. S., and D. J. Mladenoff. 1999. Spatially explicit and stochastic simulation of forest-landscape fire disturbance and succession. Ecology 80:81-99.
Hessburg, P.F., B.G. Smith, R.B. Salter, R.D. Ottmar, and E. Alvarado. 2000. Recent changes (1930s – 1990s) in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests, USA . Forest Ecology and Management 136:53-83.
Holdenrieder, O., M. Pautasso, P. J. Weisberg, and D. Lonsdale. 2004. Tree diseases and landscape processes: the challenge of landscape pathology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 446-452.
Jenerette, G.D. and J . Wu. 2001. Analysis and simulation of land-use change in the central Arizona-Phoenix region, USA . Landscape Ecology 16:611-626.
Kelly, M., and R. K. Meentenmeyer. 2002. Landscape dynamics of the spread of Sudden Oak Death. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 68:1001-1009.
Landres, P.B., P. Morgan and F. J . Swanson. 1999. Overview of the use of natural variability concepts in managing ecological systems. Ecological Applications 9:1179-1188.
Legendre, P. and Fortin, M.- J. 1989. Spatial pattern and ecological analysis. Vegetatio 80: 107-138.
Levin, S.A. 1992. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Ecology 63(6): 1943-1967.
Miller R.F., and P.E. Wigand. 1994 Holocene changes in semiarid pinyon-juniper woodlands. BioScience 44:465-474
Naveh, Z. 2000. What is holistic landscape ecology? A conceptual introduction. Landscape and Urban Planning 50:7-26.
Nonaka, E. and T.A. Spies. 2005. Historical range of variability in landscape structure: A simulation study in Oregon, USA.Ecological Applications 15: 1727-1746.
Nonaka and Holme 2007. Agent-based model approach to optimal foraging in Heterogeneous landscapes: effects of patch clumpiness. Ecography 30:777-788.
Noss, R.F., Quigley H.B., Hornocker M.G., Merrill T., and Paquet P.C.1996. Conservation biology and carnivore conservation in the Rocky Mountains. Conservation Biology 10: 949-963.
Perry, G. L. W. 2002. Landscapes, space and equilibrium: shifting viewpoints. Progress in Physical Geography 26:339-359.
Perry, J .N., A.M. Liebhold, M.S. Rosenberg, J . Dungan, M. Miriti, A. J akomulska, and S. Citron-Pousty. 2002. Illustrations and guidelines for selecting statistical methods for quantifying spatial pattern in ecological data. Ecography 25: 578-600.
Poiani, KA, BD Richter, MG Anderson, and HE Richter. 2000. Biodiversity conservation at multiple scales: functional sites, landscapes, and networks. BioScience 50:133-146.
Poole , G.C. 2002. Fluvial landscape ecology: addressing uniqueness within the river discontinuum. Freshwater Biology 47: 641-660.
O'Neill et al. 1991. Hierarchy Theory as a Guide to Mycorrhizal Research on Large-Scale Problems. Environmental Pollution 73: 271-284.
Ranganathan et al. 2007. Satellite detection of bird communities in tropical countryside. Ecological Applications 17: 1499–1510.
Rettie and Messier 2000. Hierarchical habitat selection by woodland caribou: its relationship to limiting factors. Ecography 23: 466–478.
Rossi, R. E., Mulla, D. J., Journel, A. G., and Franz, E. H. 1992. Geostatistical tools for modeling and interpreting ecological spatial dependence. Ecological Monographs 62(2): 277-314.
Savard, J .P.L., P. Clergeau, and G. Mennechez. 2000. Biodiversity concepts and urban ecosystems. Landscape and Urban Planning 48: 131-142.
Senft et al. 1987. Large animal foraging and ecological hierarchies. BioScience 37:790.
Stohlgren, Thomas J., Chong, Geneva W., Kalkhan, Mohammed A., and Schell, Lisa D. 1997. Multiscale sampling of plant diversity: effects on minimum mapping unit size. Ecological Applications 7(3): 1064-1074.
Theobald, D.M. 2004. Placing exurban land-use change in a human modification framework. Frontiers of Ecology and Environment 2:139-144.
Turner, Monica G. 1989. Landscape ecology: the effect of pattern on process. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20: 171-197.
Turner, M.G., Romme, W.H., Gardner, R.H., O'Neill, R.V., and T.K. Kratz. 1993. A revised concept of landscape equilibrium: disturbance and stability on scaled landscapes. Landscape Ecology 8(3): 213-227.
Veblen et al. 1994. Disturbance regimes and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest. Journal of Ecology 82: 125-135.
Walters 2007. Modeling scale-dependent landscape pattern, dispersal, and connectivity from the perspective of the organism. Landscape Ecol 22:867–881.
Wiens, J.A. 1989. Spatial scaling in ecology. Functional Ecology 3: 385-397.
Wiens, J.A. 2000. Ecological heterogeneity: an ontogeny of concepts and approaches. The ecological consequences of environmental heterogeneity. M. J. Hutchings, E. A. John and A. J. A. Stewart. Oxford, Blackwell Science. 40: 9 - 32.
With, K., and A.W. King. 1997. The use and misuse of neutral landscape models in ecology. Oikos 79:219-229.
With, K. A. 2002. The landscape ecology of invasive spread. Conservation Biology 16:1192-1203.
Wu, J .G. 2004. Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: scaling relations. Landscape Ecology 19:125-138. |
