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List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Loss of Biodiversity through Excessive Habitat Fragmentation | p. 2 |
Land Use Pattern and Surface Water Quality | p. 5 |
Quantifying Landscape Pattern | p. 5 |
Application to Watershed-Delineated Landscapes in Pennsylvania | p. 7 |
Land Cover Grids | p. 8 |
Watersheds based on the State Water Management Plan | p. 9 |
Methods for Quantitative Characterization of Landscape Pattern | p. 13 |
Single-resolution Measurements | p. 13 |
The Conditional Entropy Profile | p. 16 |
Computing Conditional Entropy of Expected Frequencies based on Single -Resolution Maps | p. 18 |
Illustrations | p. 23 |
Example 1: Checkerboard Map | p. 23 |
Example 2: Irregular Black and White Map | p. 26 |
Example 3: Illustration with Actual Landscapes | p. 36 |
Classifying Pennsylvania Watersheds on the Basis of Landscape Characteristics | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
Clustering Watersheds into Common Groups | p. 43 |
Comparison to Conditional Entropy Profiles | p. 53 |
Predictability of Surface Water Pollution in Pennsylvania Using Watershed-Based Landscape Measurements | p. 57 |
Introduction | p. 57 |
Surface Water Pollution Assessment | p. 57 |
Nitrogen Loading | p. 57 |
Pollution Potential Index | p. 60 |
Selecting an Initial Set of Landscape Pattern Variables | p. 63 |
Linear Models for Relating Water Pollution Loading to Landscape Variables | p. 66 |
Predicting In-Stream Nitrogen Loading | p. 68 |
Predicting a Pollution Potential Index | p. 70 |
Interpretation | p. 72 |
Predictability of Bird Community-Based Ecological Integrity Using Landscape Variables | p. 79 |
Introduction | p. 79 |
Assessing Ecological Integrity using Songbird Community Composition | p. 80 |
Background | p. 80 |
Application to Breeding Bird Data | p. 85 |
Block-Level BCI Values | p. 85 |
Watershed-level Ecological Integrity | p. 86 |
Relating Landscape Attributes to the Songbird-based Assessments of Watershed-wide Ecological Integrity | p. 91 |
Linear Regression Modeling | p. 91 |
Clustering | p. 95 |
Conditional Entropy Profiles | p. 97 |
Ecological Integrity based on All Species in the Breeding Bird Atlas | p. 100 |
Relation to Landscape Attributes | p. 101 |
Comparison of the Different Methods for Computing a Bird Community Index | p. 104 |
Summary | p. 106 |
Summary and Future Directions | p. 109 |
References | p. 115 |
Index | p. 129 |
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