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Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation

By: Samuel A. Cushman (Editor), Falk Huettmann (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 January 2010

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As Earth faces the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, the present is a moment of tremendous foment and emergence in ecological science. With leaps in advances in ecological research and the technical tools available, scientists face the critical task of challenging policymakers and the public to recognize the urgency of our global crisis. This book focuses directly on the interplay between theory, data, and analytical methodology in the rapidly evolving fields of animal ecology, conservation, and management. The mixture of topics of particular current relevance includes landscape ecology, remote sensing, spatial modeling, geostatistics, genomics, and ecological informatics. The greatest interest to the practicing scientist and graduate student will be the synthesis and integration of these topics to provide a composite view of the emerging field of spatial ecological informatics and its applications in research and management.

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"Spatial complexity, informatics, and wildlife conservation was based on the symposium 'Advanced GeoScience Applications' held at the 9th International Mammalogical Conference in Hokkaido, Japan in 2005. ... the intended audience would include researchers, scientists and graduate level students. ... this book more valuable to have available in libraries, university departments or labs ... . I recommend practitioners of spatial data and their analysis read this book to extract what valuable information they can." (Stephen L. Webb, Ecology, Vol. 91 (12), December, 2010)

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Theory and Practice
Introduction: Ecological Knowledge, Theory and Information in Space and Time	p. 3
Space and Time in Ecology: Noise or Fundamental Driver?	p. 19
The Problem of Ecological Scaling in Spatially Complex, Nonequilibrium Ecological Systems	p. 43
Landscape Ecology: Past, Present, and Future	p. 65
The Gradient Paradigm: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Landscape Ecology	p. 83
Method and Data
Data on Distribution and Abundance: Monitoring for Research and Management	p. 111
Animal Movement Data: GPS Telemetry, Autocorrelation and the Need for Path-Level Analysis	p. 131
Using a Random Forest Model and Public Data to Predict the Distribution of Prey for Marine Wildlife Management	p. 151
Landscape Genomics: A Brief Perspective	p. 165
Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Adding Spatially Explicit Behaviour Data to the Equation?	p. 175
Critical Remote Sensing Contributions to Spatial Wildlife Ecological Knowledge and Management	p. 193
Spatial Data Management Through Metadata: Global Concepts, Formats, Tools and Requirements	p. 223
Free Database Availability, Metadata and the Internet: An Example of Two High Latitude Components of the Census of Marine Life	p. 233
Components of Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Software for Statistical and Modeling Analysis	p. 245
Spatial Analysis of Wildlife Distribution and Disease Spread	p. 255
Current State of the Art for Statistical Modelling of Species Distributions	p. 273
Landscape Genetics	p. 313
Examples
Using Geographical Mapping and Occupancy Modeling to Study the Distribution of the Critically Endangered Leopard (Panthera pardus) Population in Armenia	p. 331
Mapping Landscape Resistance to Identify Corridors and Barriers for Elephant Movement in Southern Africa	p. 349
Habitat Fragmentation Effects Depend on Complex Interactions Between Population Size and Dispersal Ability: Modeling Influences of Roads, Agriculture and Residential Development Across a Range of Life-History Characteristics	p. 369
Linking Cetaceans to Their Environment: Spatial Data Acquisition, Digital Processing and Predictive Modeling for Marine Spatial Planning in the Northwest Atlantic	p. 387
Multi-spectral Satellite-Airborne Management of Ice Form Marine Mammals and Their Habitat in the Presence of Climate Change Using a "Hot Spots" Approach	p. 409
How Spatial Information Contributes to the Conservation and Management of Biodiversity	p. 429
Future and Outlook: Where Are We, and Where Will the Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology Be in 50 Years from Now?	p. 445
Index	p. 451
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