Jakub Nowosad🌲 Landscape Metrics in R Workshop presented by Paige Wirth.
An introduction to calculating landscape metrics and analyzing spatial patterns in land-cover data using R.
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R Coding for Ecology chapter on the cartogram package explores mapping ecological patterns with cartograms.
Demonstrates visualizing sampling bias and ecological variables by resizing regions based on data values.
Chapter: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99665-8_14
Code: https://github.com/RCodingForEcology/cartogram
Planetary EcologistHabitat (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundamentally different from concepts such as environment or v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat
#Habitat #Ecology #Habitats #SystemsEcology #LandscapeEcology
Monarch Watch (Habitat 🌄)
Monarch Watch is a volunteer-based citizen science organization that tracks the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. It is self-described as "a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migratio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Watch
#MonarchWatch #Habitat #CitizenScience #AnimalMigration #LandscapeEcology #InsectConservation
EugeneHow much does landform position matter for vegetation dynamics across Calgary?
I explored how ΔNDVI (2025-2024) varies across geomorphon classes (summit, ridge, slope, hollow, valley, etc.) using a large spatial dataset (~194k observations).
A few key points from the analysis:
• Non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis test shows statistically significant differences between geomorphons
• However, the effect size is moderate (ε² ≈ 0.04)
• Distributions strongly overlap — landform position matters, but it is not a deterministic driver
• Median ΔNDVI tends to be higher in lower landscape positions (hollows, footslopes, valleys), consistent with moisture and accumulation controls
#EnvironmentalData #RemoteSensing #NDVI #LandscapeEcology #Geomorphology #DataAnalysis #RStats
#ReproducibleResearch #Calgary #GreennessOfCalgary #Sentinel2
Landscape conservation cooperatives (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, established in 2009 in the United States, are a network of 22 regional conservation bodies covering the entire United States and adjacent areas. They are autonomous cooperatives sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior and aim to develop coordinated conservation stra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_conservation_cooperatives
New R Coding for Ecology chapter on measuring landscape patterns with landscapemetrics and motif 📊🌍
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99665-8_10
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.06559
Code: https://github.com/Nowosad/landscapemetrics_motif_2026
Disturbance (ecology) (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements. A disturbance can also occur over a long ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)
#Disturbance #Habitat #LandscapeEcology #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalSuccession #EnvironmentalTerminology
Landscape ecology (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. Landscape ecology can be described as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_ecology
#LandscapeEcology #Habitat #Landscape #Biogeography #SystemsEcology #EnvironmentalDesign
Biogeography (Earth sciences 🌍)
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography
#Biogeography #Habitat #EarthSciences #LandscapeEcology #PhysicalGeography #PhysicalOceanography
