#landscapeecology — Public Fediverse posts

Extinction debt (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea. Extinction debt occurs because of time delays between impacts on a species, such as destruction of habitat, and the species' ultimate disappearance. For instance, lo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_debt

#ExtinctionDebt #Ecology #Extinction #Biogeography #LandscapeEcology

Extinction debt (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea. Extinction debt occurs because of time delays between impacts on a species, such as destruction of habitat, and the species' ultimate disappearance. For instance, lo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_debt

#ExtinctionDebt #Ecology #Extinction #Biogeography #LandscapeEcology

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

🫐 The Blueberry Map Experiment — modelling meets the mountains

In 2022, while living with my family in the Czech Republic, I built a digital map of wild blueberry hotspots in the Jizera Mountains.

At first, it looked like a fun summer project — our neighbors used the map to find the best berry spots and enjoy the landscape.
But behind it was a serious experiment: I tested species distribution modelling (SDM) methods, later adapted for wide-world rare earth element prediction.

Within this “blueberry project” I:
🔹 automated the full spatial workflow in R and QGIS,
🔹 generated geomorphons and other terrain-based predictors,
🔹 built and validated ML models,
🔹 created probability maps and tested them in the field.

✨ What started as a family hobby became a field-tested workflow for predictive geoscience.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #GIS #SpatialModeling #SDM #CzechRepublic #RemoteSensing #Geoscience #RStats #EnvironmentalData #PredictiveMapping #LandscapeEcology #RareEarthElements #CriticalMinerals

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

Explaining the ecology of #Pinuspinaster forests in mediterranen France to some Masterstudents of the ifgg/ #kit. Here a very Special Forest, Pinus pinaster associated with #Saccharumspontaneum, which was originaly planted in the 1920 to stabilize the #dunes on the Lido between the Etang the leucate and the Open See. Today, the Location called Mas de l'isle is a Nature Reserve. #pyreneesorientales #Geography #landscapeecology #teachinggeography
https://social.sciences.re/@geography@a.gup.pe

2 fruitful days #IALE-Europe EC meeting in Lisbon working on actions + roadmap until #iale2025 European #LandscapeEcology Congress. We also proofed how cooking & food effectively supports communication while meeting colleagues from #APEP for lunch and to discuss joint activities. Stay tuned...

Now I am researching almost a quarter of a century on the #primarysuccession on the #Capelinhos #volcano (#Faial/ #Azores)! Here my #television interview in the #RTP (Azorian regional television branch) about that ongoing reserach. I speak #English, interview comments are in #Portugese! #ecology #fieldecology #geobotany #geography #landscapeecology #vegetationscience
https://acores.rtp.pt/local/vulcao-dos-capelinhos-geografo-diz-que-e-caso-unico-na-europa-a-paisagem-continuar-arida/
@geography