Journal Title
Title of Journal: Landscape Ecol
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Abbravation: Landscape Ecology
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Graeme S Cumming
Publish Date: 2011/06/15
Volume: 26, Issue: 7, Pages: 899-909
Abstract
Landscape ecology has a high potential to contribute to sustainability in the interactions of people and nature Landscape ecologists have already made considerable progress towards a more general understanding of the relevance of spatial variation for ecosystems Incorporating the complexities of societies and economies into landscape ecology analyses will however require a broader framework for thinking about spatial elements of complexity An exciting recent development is to explicitly try to integrate landscape ecology and ideas about resilience in social–ecological systems through the concept of spatial resilience Spatial resilience focuses on the importance of location connectivity and context for resilience based on the idea that spatial variation in patterns and processes at different scales both impacts and is impacted by local system resilience I first introduce and define the concepts of resilience and spatial resilience and then discuss some of their potential contributions to the further interdisciplinary integration of landscape ecology complexity theory and sustainability science Complexity theorists have argued that many complex phenomena such as symmetrybreaking and selection share common underlying mechanisms regardless of system type physical social ecological or economic Similarities in the consequences of social exclusion and habitat fragmentation provide an informative example There are many strong parallels between pattern–process interactions in social and ecological systems respectively and a number of general spatial principles and mechanisms are emerging that have relevance across many different kinds of system Landscape ecologists with their background in spatially explicit pattern–process analysis are well placed to contribute to this emerging research agendaI am grateful to the many friends and colleagues who have discussed these and related ideas with me over the years and to Jianquo Wu and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript This research was supported by the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute the University of Cape Town the Oppenheimer Foundation and the Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- Farmland bird responses to intersecting replanted areas
- How the eastern US National Forests were formed
- The use of metapopulation and optimal foraging theories to predict movement and foraging decisions of mobile animals in heterogeneous landscapes
- Characterising landscape connectivity for conservation planning using a dispersal guild approach
- Effects of field and landscape variables on crop colonization and biological control of the cabbage root fly Delia radicum
- The potential to restore native woody plant richness and composition in a reforesting landscape: a modeling approach in the Ecuadorian Andes
- Past, present and future of wild ungulates in relation to changes in land use
- Biogeochemical fluxes in landscapes
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of black-tailed prairie dog colonies affected by plague
- Landscape connectivity and animal behavior: functional grain as a key determinant for dispersal
- Thresholds of landscape change: a new tool to manage green infrastructure and social–economic development
- Testing coexistence of extinction debt and colonization credit in fragmented calcareous grasslands with complex historical dynamics
- Changes in landscape naturalness derived from a historical land register—a case study from NE Germany
- Linking Land-use, Water Body Type and Water Quality in Southern New Zealand
- Spatial fit between water quality policies and hydrologic ecosystem services in an urbanizing agricultural landscape
- Modeling exurban development near Washington, DC, USA: comparison of a pattern-based model and a spatially-explicit econometric model
- The impact of land use/land cover scale on modelling urban ecosystem services
- Using landscape analysis to assess and model tsunami damage in Aceh province, Sumatra
- Geographic position and landscape composition explain regional patterns of migrating landbird distributions during spring stopover along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico
- Effects of thematic resolution on landscape pattern analysis
- Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable
- Ontologies for transparent integrated human-natural system modelling
- Scenarios of long-term farm structural change for application in climate change impact assessment
- Influence of patch, habitat, and landscape characteristics on patterns of Lower Keys marsh rabbit occurrence following Hurricane Wilma
- Multi-scale predictive habitat suitability modeling based on hierarchically delineated patches: an example for yellow-billed cuckoos nesting in riparian forests, California, USA
- Long-term vegetation dynamics driven by climatic variations in the Inner Mongolia grassland: findings from 30-year monitoring
- Relative importance of management vs. design for implementation of large-scale ecological networks
- A global perspective on reforesting landscapes
- Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects
- Functional connectivity of lynx at their southern range periphery in Ontario, Canada
- M. Doyle and C. A. Drew (eds): Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States
- The sensitivity of least-cost habitat graphs to relative cost surface values
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