Foreword by the Series Editors .................................. v
Preface ........................................................ ix
Change and Transformation: A Synthesis .......................... 1
Felix Kienast, Otto Wildi and Sucharita Ghosh
Value Systems - Major Drivers of Landscape Dynamics ............. 5
Value Systems: Drivers of Human-landscape Interactions .......... 7
Matthias Buchecker, Susanne Kianicka and Berit Junker
The Role of Value Systems in Biodiversity Research ............. 27
Peter Duelli, Priska Baur, Matthias Buchecker,
Felix Gugerli, Rolf Holderegger and Thomas Wohlgemuth
The Meaning of "Landscape" - An Exegesis of Swiss Government
Texts .......................................................... 35
Peter Longatti and Thomas Dalang
Space and Place - Two Aspects of the Human-landscape
Relationship ................................................... 47
Marcel Hunziker, Matthias Buchecker and Terry Hartig
Ecological Observations and Processes .......................... 63
Modern Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring of
Landscape States and Trajectories .............................. 65
Nikiaus E. Zimmermann, Robert A. Washington-Allen,
Robert D. Ramsey, Michael E. Schaepman, Lukas Mathys,
Benjamin Kötz, Mathias Kneubühler and Thomas C. Edwards
A Large-scale, Long-term view on Collecting and Sharing
Landscape Data ................................................. 93
Adrian Lanz, Martin Brändli and Andri Baltensweiler
On Selected Issues and Challenges in Dendroclimatology ........ 113
Jan Esper, David C. Frank and Jürg Luterbacher
Using the Past to Understand the Present Land Use and Land
Cover ......................................................... 133
Matthias Bürgi, Anna M. Hersperger, Marcus Hall,
Emiliy W.B. (Russell) Southgate and Nina Schneeberger
Integrating Population Genetics with Landscape Ecology to
Infer Spatio-temporal Processes ............................... 145
Rolf Holderegger, Felix Gugerli, Christoph Scheidegger
and Pierre Taberlet
Landscape Permeability: From Individual Dispersal to
Population Persistence ........................................ 157
Werner Suter, Kurt Bollmann and Rolf Holderegger
Spatial Pattern Recognition, Time Series Analysis and
Dynamic Modeling .............................................. 175
Identifying and Quantifying Landscape Patterns in Space and
Time .......................................................... 177
Janine Bolliger, Helene H. Wagner and Monica G. Turner
Essay on the Study of the Vegetation Process .................. 195
Otto Wildi and László Orlóci
Statistical Analysis of Landscape Data: Space-for-time,
Probability Surfaces and Discovering Species .................. 209
Sucharita Ghosh and Otto Wildi
Memory, Non-stationarity and Trend: Analysis of
Environmental Time Series ..................................... 223
Sucharita Ghosh, Jan Beran, Siegfried Heiler,
Donald Percival and Willy Tinner
Model Up-scaling in Landscape Research ........................ 249
Heike Lischke, Thomas J. Löffler, Peter E. Thornton and
Nikiaus E. Zimmermann
Dynamic Spatio-temporal Landscape Models ...................... 273
Heike Lischke, Janine Bolliger and Ralf Seppelt
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