Essays about: "quantifying fragmentation"

Found 4 essays containing the words quantifying fragmentation.

  1. 1. Carabidocoenoses and Fragments of Forests : exploring the Carabid Landscape

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Simon Heinrich Arns; [2023]
    Keywords : biodiversity; Carabidae; carabid diversity; entomology; Fragmentation; Fragstats; habitat fragmentation; habitat Heterogeneity; landscape; landscape ecology; landscape Heterogeneity; pitfall trap; quantifying fragmentation;

    Abstract : Epigeic ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) were sampled between 2021-06-28 and 2021-07-09 using pitfall traps in the Swedish counties Värmland and Gävleborg. The structural properties of the landscapes surrounding these points were estimated from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s national land cover databases and the Swedish Forest Agency’s data for all formally protected and high conservation value forests using patch-based configurational metrics. READ MORE

  3. 2. Urban expansion, land use change and development of landscape diversity in Södra Sandby, Lund municipality 1940-2019

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Karl Piltz; [2020]
    Keywords : Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Diversity is an important part of the health of our planet’s ecosystems and processes. Anthropogenic factors like urbanization and agriculture have altered the landscape and in turn had a negative effect on diversity. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Technology-Adjusted Balance of Emissions Embodied in Trade: Assessing Global Carbon Emission Displacement from 1995 to 2009

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Nicolai Baumert; [2017]
    Keywords : Emissions Embodied in Trade; Input-Output Analysis; Emission Displacement; Carbon Leakage; Carbon Footprint; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Increasing global production fragmentation allows for emission displacement, which may counteract advanced nation’s domestic reductions of production-related carbon emissions. Consequently, input-output analysis has become a common tool to measure countries’ carbon footprint and emission trade balances based on national consumption instead of domestically produced CO2 emissions. READ MORE

  5. 4. Method evaluation of GIS-based prediction tools for biodiversity : habitat suitability for birds in Stockholm, Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Malin Birgersson; [2007]
    Keywords : urban ecology; habitat suitability index; habitat suitability; HSI; GIS; prediction tools; biodiversity; birds;

    Abstract : Swedish cities are from a European point of view considered small, sparsely populated and green. Stockholm city has a great deal of its nature and older cultural landscape remaining, which is unusual in large metropolitan areas. READ MORE