Landscape ecology

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Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of landscape scales and organizational levels (see wikipedia:Landscape_ecology).

GRASS supports a series of analysis to analyse fragmentation, patch relationships and more.

Two sets of commands are available:

  • r.le.setup - Quantitative analysis of landscape structures
  • r.li - Landscape structure analysis package (parallelized code)

See also

  • Vernesi, C., Rocchini, D., Pecchioli, E., Neteler, M., Vendramin, G.G., Paffetti, D. (2012). A landscape genetics approach reveals ecological-based differentiation in populations of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) at the northern limit of its range. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 107(2): 458-467 (DOI | PDF)