#landscapeecology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landscapeecology, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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📰 Sheep Are Helping Volkswagen Turn a Solar Farm into a Living Ecosystem
🐑 Poland: A flock of 100 sheep now grazes beneath 31,000 solar panels at VW’s Poznań plant, replacing mechanical mowing while improving soil, vegetation, and habitat quality.
🔆 The project is a large‑scale agrivoltaics experiment, pairing renewable energy with agriculture to boost biodiversity, reduce heat stress, and create cooler microclimates under the panels.
🤝 Researchers are tracking animal welfare, soil health, vegetation shifts, and insect habitat, showing how industrial solar sites can double as ecological corridors when managed thoughtfully.
🔗 https://electrek.co/2026/07/08/volkswagen-put-100-sheep-to-work-under-31000-solar-panels/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding
#Agrivoltaics #LandscapeEcology #RenewableEnergy #Biodiversity #SoilHealth #PollinatorHabitat #Sustainability #HabitatRestoration -
📰 Curb‑cutting Resistance Helped Reshape Tucson’s Urban Ecology
🌧️ Tucson: A man illegally diverted rainwater into streetside basins in 1998. Years later, it transformed a desert neighborhood into a shaded, food‑producing micro‑ecosystem.
🌵 The approach revived Indigenous rain‑harvesting traditions but also caused Tucson to change water management laws to be more nature positive.
#SolarPunkSunday
#LandscapeEcology #UrbanRestoration #UrbanEcology #RainwaterHarvesting #NativePlants #Sustainability #Environment -
Fire history (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes. It gives an estimate of a natural disturbance regime's historical range of variability and can be used to...
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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
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🌲 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 -
Habitat (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
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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
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How 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cross-boundary subsidy (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Cross-boundary subsidies are caused by organisms or materials that cross or traverse habitat patch boundaries, subsidizing the resident populations. The transferred organisms and materials may provide additional predators, prey, or nutrients to resident species, which can affect ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-boundary_subsidy
#CrossBoundarySubsidy #Ecology #SystemsEcology #LandscapeEcology #EcologicalRestoration #EnvironmentalConservation
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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
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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
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🫐 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
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Ecotype (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Ecotypes are organisms which belong to the same species but possess different phenotypical features as a result of environmental factors such as elevation, climate and predation. Ecotypes can be seen in wide geographical distributions and may eventually lead to speciation.
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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
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Road barrier effect (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
The barrier effect of roads and highways is a phenomenon usually associated with landscape ecology, referring to the barrier that linear infrastructure like roads or railways place on the movement of animals. Largely viewed as a negative process, the barrier effect has also been found to have several positive effects, particularly with smaller species. To reduc...
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Spatial configuration (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
In landscape ecology, spatial configuration describes the spatial pattern of patches in a landscape. Most traditional spatial configuration measurements take into account aspects of patches within the landscape, including patches' size, shape, density, connectivity and fractal dimension. Other measurements are pixel-based, such as contagion and lacunarity...
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Ecosystem engineer (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
An ecosystem engineer is any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. These organisms can have a large impact on species richness and landscape-level heterogeneity of an area. As a result, ecosystem engineers are important for maintaining the health and stability of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_engineer
#EcosystemEngineer #Habitat #SystemsEcology #EcologicalNiche #InvasiveSpecies #LandscapeEcology
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Ecoregion conservation status (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Conservation status is a measure used in conservation biology to assess an ecoregion's degree of habitat alteration and habitat conservation. It is used to set priorities for conservation. Ecoregion Conservation Status refers to the assessment and categorization of the ecological health, biodiversity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion_conservation_status
#EcoregionConservationStatus #Ecoregions #LandscapeEcology #ConservationBiology
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Ecotype (Zoology 🦥)
Ecotypes are organisms which belong to the same species but possess different phenotypical features as a result of environmental factors such as elevation, climate and predation. Ecotypes can be seen in wide geographical distributions and may eventually lead to speciation.
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Ecoregion conservation status (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
Conservation status is a measure used in conservation biology to assess an ecoregion's degree of habitat alteration and habitat conservation. It is used to set priorities for conservation. Ecoregion Conservation Status refers to the assessment and categorization of the ecological health, biodiversity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion_conservation_status
#EcoregionConservationStatus #Ecoregions #LandscapeEcology #ConservationBiology
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Road barrier effect (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
The barrier effect of roads and highways is a phenomenon usually associated with landscape ecology, referring to the barrier that linear infrastructure like roads or railways place on the movement of animals. Largely viewed as a negative process, the barrier effect has also been found to have several positive effects, particularly with smaller species. To reduc...
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Thrilling update on #IALE2025 #LandscapeEcology Congress in Bratislava (2–5 Sept 2025):
Over 450 abstracts have been submitted and are now being reviewed to curate an outstanding program. In the meantime, three keynote speakers have been announced!Stay tuned for more information and updates and visit:
iale2025.sav.sk