An Ecological Focus for Landscape Planning

Incorporating ecological sustainability into landscape planning

“…There is a shortage of spatially explicit guidelines at the landscape level, based on ecological thresholds (Moss, 2000;Boothby, 2000;Opdam et al, 2002). For example, scientific ecological information for many species is still not available and ecological indicators for sustainable landscape patterns are in a preliminary state.…”

Retrospective land cover/land use change trajectories as drivers behind the local distribution and abundance patterns of oaks in south-western Finland

“…This inevitably draws attention to the factors driving and directing changes in the landscape. Landscape configurations and patterns change with more or less intentional land use planning processes and the actions involved (Antrop, 1998;Boothby, 2000;Marcucci, 2000). Changes, largely related to the complex interactions of abiotic and biotic factors including humans, transform landscape patterns through time.…”

Change trajectories and key biotopes—Assessing landscape dynamics and sustainability

“…For example, the Change Index indicated oak woodland continuity but land use change trajectory analysis within oak woodlands showed variable land use change trajectories for different woodland patches. Therefore, prior to implementation of any management or conservation plans, landscape processes should be understood at multiple scales (Noss, 1990;Herrmann and Osinski, 1999;Boothby, 2000;Gulinck et al, 2001). This challenges evaluation of landscape functions and highlights the importance of overall change processes at multiple scales to those of single time and scale spatial patterns of the landscape.…”