Essays about: "FRAGSTATS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word FRAGSTATS.

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. Evaluating structural landscape development in the municipality Upplands-Bro, using landscape metrics indices

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Marcus Eriksson; [2020]
   Keywords : Geography; Geographical Information Systems; landscape development; land use; landscape indices; FRAGSTATS; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this study was to evaluate and describe the landscape development in an area located in the municipality of Upplands-Bro, Sweden. The main hypothesis was that the landscape patterns in the study area have changed, as I expected to discover that the landscape has undergone structural changes, in form of both changed land use and changed landscape patch composition. READ MORE

5. 4. Wild boar paradise : What makes the Swedish wild boar reproduce more or less successfully?

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

   Author : Matti Erikoinen; Pekka Erikoinen; [2014]
   Keywords : landscape diversity; rate of increase; wild boar; sus scrofa;

   Abstract : Due to the growing wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) population in Sweden there has been an increase in wild boar related traffic accidents, damage on cropland, and conflicts regarding the management of the wild boar. READ MORE

6. 5. Land use intensity versus landscape complexity : analysis of landscape characteristics in an agricultural region of Southern Sweden

   University essay from SLU/Dept. Of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management

   Author : Anna Persson; [2009]
   Keywords : landscape; complexity; land use; intensity; factor analysis; spatial scale; agriculture;

   Abstract : The main aim of this project was to study the relationship between land use intensity and landscape complexity. We analysed landscape data in 150 1km2 plots and within a buffer zone of 2km around each plot. The plots were distributed over a large part of the region of Skåne (Scania), southernmost Sweden. READ MORE