Forest Landscape Ecology: Linking Past, Present, and Future Data
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018) | Viewed by 57563
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Forest landscapes are dynamic and complex systems, influenced by natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Historical data derived from different sources can be used to understand the role of disturbance regimes in shaping the structure of forest landscapes. Landscape ecology aims at measuring the reciprocal effects of ecological processes, such as successions and disturbances on landscape patterns.
After millennia of moderate landscape changes, we are observing an acceleration in the rate of alterations due to an increased impact of human activities through land use and climate changes. These changes strongly affect patterns and processes in forest ecosystems altering their disturbance regimes. For these reasons, it is of crucial importance to increase our awareness of landscape dynamics to improve the management of forest landscapes.
Landscape ecology is typically multidisciplinary and multiscale, as it takes advantage of the spatial component of landscape elements. The increase of free geospatial data and the increased computational power of hardware and GIS software makes nowadays the analysis of forest dynamics at landscape scale easier that in the recent past.
With this Special Issue, we seek studies from all fields, including modeling and experimental research, focused on landscape dynamics and integrating field, remote sensing, and historical data at multiple spatio-temporal scales.
Prof. Dr. Matteo Garbarino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- landscape change
- forest structure
- forest disturbances
- successions
- forest landscape management
- historical ecology
- applied remote sensing and GIS
- spatial statistics