Applying landscape ecological concepts and metrics in sustainable landscape planning

Leitão, André Botequilha; Ahern, Jack

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(02)00005-1

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“…This instrument has been used for more than 20 years in Europe and North America in a variety of studies in the scientific and experimental area. They are now finding their way into such practical applications as assessment procedures for planning (Botequilha Leitão and Ahern, 2002) and monitoring (Wrbka, 2003;Heinz Center, 2008). The present review paper elucidates the role that landscape metrics can play, particularly in the collection of the relevant information, and in the evaluation and monitoring of biodiversity.…”

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Landscape Structure, Landscape Metrics and Biodiversity

Walz¹

2011

Living Rev. Landscape Res.

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This paper deals with the question of the role landscape metrics can play in the investigation, evaluation and monitoring of landscape structure, and which linkages between landscape structure and biodiversity are known. In the first part, the scientific state of the art is presented; in the second part, the meaning of landscape metrics for nature protection, landscape management and biodiversity monitoring is discussed. A number of studies indicate that such metrics on an aggregated, overall landscape level are quite appropriate to describe the state of biodiversity. On the other hand, gaps in the knowledge become apparent, and the results of such studies are strongly dependent on the scale of investigation and the underlying database. Nevertheless, the landscape structure approach seems to be expedient for management and planning at the landscape level.

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Landscape Structure, Landscape Metrics and Biodiversity

Walz¹

2011

Living Rev. Landscape Res.

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“…These metrics were obtained from each thematic layer and from each delimited area according to Botequilha & Ahern (2002). In essence, for each year the number, average size, and average shape index of each fragment at the delimited area and land use level were determined.…”

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¿Es la cobertura forestal conservada y restaurada por las zonas protegidas?: El caso de dos áreas silvestres protegidas en el Pacífico Central de Costa Rica

Vega

2015

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Changes in land use are mainly a consequence of anthropogenic actions. The current agricultural and urban transformations in Costa Rica have raised questions about the effectiveness of conservation and restoration within protected areas. Herein we analyzed the patterns of land use change between three periods: 1997, 2005 and 2010 in terms of magnitude, direction, and pace through categorical maps generated by the photointerpretation for La Cangreja National Park (LCNP), Rancho Mastatal Wildlife Refuge (RMWR), and their surrounding areas (SA), this last compound of one kilometer radius outside the protected areas' boundaries. The matrix which describes the landscape within the protected areas is natural coverage, composed mainly by forest cover and thickets. We found that the most abundant natural cover for both protected areas was forest cover for all years tested. The stability and large areas of forest cover in LCNP and RMWR for 2005 and 2010, reflected that policies, management actions and vigilance, have a positive impact on the conservation and restoration of natural habitats in these Costa Rican Central Pacific areas. However, the high landscape complexity of the SA in 1997, 2005 and 2010 was an evidence of the anthropogenic pressure on these protected areas, and suggested the ineffectiveness of local governments to monitor and abate land use changes, that could hinder the management, conservation and restoration of species in the protected areas. Rev. Biol. Trop. 63 (3): 579-590. Epub 2015 September 01.

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“…Ahern (2011Ahern ( , 2013 describes the concept of planning a landscape as a green infrastructure where landscape ecology has a central role in providing tools to understand, model and manage the frequency, magnitude and extent of urban ecosystem dynamics. The main principles of the landscape ecology approach that are relevant to the implementation of a green infrastructure in urban landscape planning are: (a) a landscape-scale approach with an explicit recognition of the relationships between pattern and process and an emphasis on structural and functional connectivity (Botequilha Leitao & Ahern 2002, Ndubisi 2002; (b) a multifunctional approach which aims to combine and link different ecosystem services with a connectivity dependent function (i.e., in relation to human health (recreation) and secure intact ecological systems and biodiversity) and, in that way, use the limited urban space more effectively (Ahern 2011, Lafortezza et al 2013a). …”

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The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

Vasiljevic¹,

Radić²,

Gavrilović³

et al. 2018

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The beginning of the 21 st century has witnessed a growth in our understanding of the importance of planning urban landscapes in the context of urban population growth and unpredictable climatic conditions. In the search for responses to the challenges set by the development of contemporary urban landscapes, researchers have offered solutions based on the concept of sustainable and resilient cities, whose spatial development would be based on an interdisciplinary approach to strategy development: biodiversity, urban ecological networks and connectivity, multifunctionality and modularity. Although the concepts of a green infrastructure, in their spatial and functional dimensions, allow the application of such strategies, there are still problems when it comes to implementation and measuring the results achieved. At the same time, there is a growing discussion of the important role played by urban forestry in the context of the collaborative planning of urban landscapes and the application of the ideas of a green infrastructure. The key question is: what are the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in the process of planning the development of the modern city and how can the resulting benefits be evaluated? With the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in mind, we discuss its multi-scale and multifunctional dimensions as applied in the case of Serbia. The realisation of the green infrastructure concept is presented through the example of the Urban Forest Management Plan for the City of Belgrade -Mladenovac Municipality. The results of using the spatial-ecological approach in creating the plan and establishing connectivity as a new aim in forest management planning show that the implementation of the green infrastructure concept, and the achieved multifunctional ecosystem values, can be presented on the basis of the parameters of landscape metrics. In light of the new urban world, future research should focus on the application of the landscape ecological approach of the green infrastructure concept in collaborative planning at the urban landscape scale, which allows the creation of ecosystem services and benefits to human wellbeing.

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Applying landscape ecological concepts and metrics in sustainable landscape planning

Cited by 733 publications

References 49 publications

Landscape Structure, Landscape Metrics and Biodiversity

Landscape Structure, Landscape Metrics and Biodiversity

¿Es la cobertura forestal conservada y restaurada por las zonas protegidas?: El caso de dos áreas silvestres protegidas en el Pacífico Central de Costa Rica

The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

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