Spring-summer movements of male capercaillieTetrao urogallus:A test of the ‘landscape mosaic’ hypothesis

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olav Hjeljord ◽  
Per Wegge ◽  
Jørund Rolstad ◽  
Marina Ivanova ◽  
Alexander B. Beshkarev
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Mosaic

scholarly journals Assessment of Tuscany Landscape Structure According to the Regional Landscape Plan Partition

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5424
Author(s):  
Martina Venturi ◽  
Francesco Piras ◽  
Federica Corrieri ◽  
Beatrice Fiore ◽  
Antonio Santoro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Structure ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Edge Density ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Landscape Mosaic ◽  
Landscape Complexity ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Patch Density ◽  
Landscape Units

The landscape is considered a strategic asset by the Tuscan regional government, also for its economic role, meaning that a specific Landscape Plan has been developed, dividing the region into 20 Landscape Units and representing the main planning instrument at the regional level. Following the aims of the Landscape Plan and the guidelines of the European Landscape Convention, it is necessary to develop an adequate assessment of the landscape, evaluating the main typologies and their characteristics. The aim of this research is to carry out an assessment of the landscape diversity in Tuscany based on 20 study areas, analyzing land uses and landscape mosaic structures through the application of landscape metrics: number of land uses, mean patch size (MPS), Hill’s diversity number, edge density (ED), patch density (PD), land use diversity (LUD). The results highlight a correlation between the landscape typologies (forest, agricultural, mixed, periurban) and the complexity of the landscape structure, especially in relation to MPS and PD, while the combination of PD and LUD calculated on the basis of a hexagonal grid allows obtaining landscape complexity maps. Despite the phenomena of reforestation and urban sprawl of recent decades, Tuscany still preserves different landscape typologies characterized by a good level of complexity. This is particularly evident in mixed landscapes, while agricultural landscapes have a larger variability because of different historical land organization forms. The methodology applied in this study provided a large amount of data about land uses and the landscape mosaic structure and complexity and proved to be effective in assessing the landscape structure and in creating a database that can represent a baseline for future monitoring.

Plant diversity in a changing agricultural landscape mosaic in Southern Transylvania (Romania)

2015 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 350-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Loos ◽  
Pavel Dan Turtureanu ◽  
Henrik von Wehrden ◽  
Jan Hanspach ◽  
Ine Dorresteijn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Mosaic

Landscape mosaic of Araucaria forest and forest monocultures influencing understorey spider assemblages in southern Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONEI BALDISSERA ◽  
GISLENE GANADE ◽  
ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT ◽  
SANDRA M. HARTZ
Keyword(s):  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Landscape Mosaic ◽  
Araucaria Forest

scholarly journals Predators do not spill over from forest fragments to maize fields in a landscape mosaic in central Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 7699-7707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ferrante ◽  
Ezequiel González ◽  
Gábor L. Lövei
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Landscape Mosaic ◽  
Central Argentina
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