Reading
List for ESCI 435/535: Landscape Ecology
Fall
Term, 2014
Last Updated: 9/15/2014
Note: I WILL NOT be
placing articles on reserve in the Main library. I will place a few books on
reserve in the Main Library. All articles will be available electronically (see
links below).
I try to keep the links to
papers updated but when the library drops a database subscription (as they
frequently do), my links stop working.
So, PLEASE NOTIFY ME ASAP IF YOU FIND A BROKEN LINK. If you do find a broken link, don’t give
up. You can navigate to these papers, or
other papers you may locate yourself by going to the library webpage and
finding your way to the paper yourself by using the citation that I have
provided (journal name, year, volume and page
numbers).
A final word about online resources: In recent years, more and more journals are becoming available online. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good news is that online resources are very easy to access and you don’t need to spend your dime at the Xerox machine. The bad news is that most of us (including me!) are getting lazy and becoming overly reliant on these online resources. Many of us are just too darned lazy to walk to the library and search out a paper copy of a journal. We tend to feel that if it is not online, it must not be important. NOT TRUE! Some great papers are published in journals that we do not have available online. This is especially true for older classic papers. The net effect is that the use of online journals tends to make us very myopic in what we choose to read. Online resources were supposed to make journals more widely available. They were supposed to broaden our perspective but in many cases, these online resources have tended to narrow our perspective. Less and less of the literature is becoming more and more widely available (particularly with our declining budgets). The stuff that is not available online tends to be ignored. The take-home message? Online resources are fantastic. By all means use them. However, don’t rely on these things exclusively! If you come across a paper in a journal that is not available online, don’t give up! Go the library and chase the journal down or request it through interlibrary loan if we don’t have it. Someday, maybe all journals will be available on the web but we are not quite there yet. In the meantime, we need to use the paper journals and the Xerox machines. Someday, you’ll be able to tell your kids about the olden days and how you used to lug stacks of heavy paper journals to this contraption called a Xerox machine. They’ll be impressed…..or maybe just amused….
Last Updated: 9/15/2014
Reading #1 (Sept. 26-29)
Urban, D.L., et al.. 1987. Landscape ecology. Bioscience 37:119-127. (Yes, this is an older paper, but please read it anyway! It is a classic.) (Click here to view this article through JSTOR)
*Classic review paper from early days of landscape ecology, hierarchy theory, scaling, pattern and process linkage, disturbance, anthropogenic effects on landscape processes.
Turner, M.G. 2005a. Landscape ecology in
Turner, M.G. 2005b. Landscape ecology: what is the state of the science? Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36:319-344. http://ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102003.152614
Reading #2 (Sept. 30 Oct. 3)
Gustafson, E.J. 1998. Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: what is the state of the art? Ecosystems 1:143-156. (Click to view)
McGarigal, Kevin, Sermin Tagil and Samuel A. Cushman. 2009. Surface metrics: an alternative to patch metrics
for the quantification of landscape structure. Landscape Ecology 24(3):443-450.
DOI:
10.1007/s10980-009-9327-y (NOTE: go to this link, then get the
pdf. In the pdf, you will also see a
link to “Electronic supplementary material.”
You should take a look at this as well.)
Other optional papers:
Hoechstetter S., U. Walz, L.H. Dang, N.X. Thinh. 2008.
Effects of topography and surface roughness in analysis of landscape
structure-a proposal to modify the existing set of landscape metrics. Landscape
Online 1:1-14. http://www.landscapeonline.de/archive/2008/3/LO3_Hoechstetter_etal_2008.pdf
Neel MC, McGarigal K, Cushman SA.
2004. Behavior of class-level landscape
metrics across gradients of class aggregation and area. Landscape Ecol 19:435–455. DOI:
10.1023/B:LAND.0000030521.19856.cb
Reading #3 (Oct. 6-8)
Stephenson, N.L. 1990. Climatic
controls on vegetation distribution: the role of the water balance. Amer. Nat. 135:649-670. Click
to view through JSTORS
Urban, D.L. ,
C. Miller, P.N. Halpin and N.L. Stephenson.
2000. Forest gradient response in
Sierran landscapes: the physical template. Landscape Ecology 15:603-620. urban_etal_2000.pdf
Reading #4 (Oct. 10)
Take another look at the Urban et at. 2000 paper that I assigned for 10/8-10) and also read:
Reiners, W.A. and G.E. Lang. 1979. Vegetation patterns and processes in the balsam fir zone, White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ecology 60:403-417. (Click here to view the article through JStors)
Reading #5 (Oct. 13-14)
Watt, A.S.. 1947. Pattern and process in the plant community. Journal of Ecology 35:1-22. (available in Huxley library or on the stacks in the main library) Click for access through JSTORS
Smith, T.M. and D.L. Urban. 1988. Scale and resolution of forest structural patterns. Vegetatio 74:143-150. pdf_files\smith_and_urban_1988.doc
Reading #7 (Oct. 20-22)
Knight,
D.H. and L.L. Wallace. 1989. The Yellowstone Fires: Issues in landscape
ecology. BioScience 39: 700 706. Click
here to access through JSTORS
(new)Romme,
W.H., Boyce, M.S., Gresswell, R., Merrill, E.H., Minshall, G.W., Whitlock, C., and M.G. Turner. 2011. Twenty
years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires: lessons about disturbance and
ecosystems. Ecosystems 14(7):1196-1215. http://ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-011-9470-6
Miller,
C. and D.L. Urban. 1999. A model of surface fire, climate and forest
pattern in the Sierra Nevada, California.
Ecological Modelling
114:113-135. millerurban_99a.pdf
Reading #8 (Oct. 24, 27)
Swanson, F.J., T.K. Kratz, N. Caine and R.G. Woodmansee. 1988. Landform effects on ecosystem patterns and processes. Bioscience 38:92-98. (Click here to view and print this document through JSTORS)
Landres, P.B., P. Morgan and F.J. Swanson. 1999. Overview of the use of natural variability concepts in managing ecological systems. Ecological Applications 9:1179-1188. (Click to access the article through Jstors) Note that this issue of Ecological Applications includes a series of papers on this topic.
Reading #8 (Oct. 28-29)
Keane, R.E., R.F. Hessburg,
P.B. Landres, F.J. Swanson. 2009. The use of historical range and
variability (HRV) in landscape management.
Forest Ecology and Management
258:1025-1037 pdf_files\keane_etal_2009_rnv.pdf
Waples, R.S., T. Beechie,
G.R. Pess. 2009. Evolutionary history, habitat
disturbance regimes and anthropogenic changes: what do these mean for
resilience of Pacific salmon populations?
Ecology and Society 14(1):3 (note that this is
one of several papers on this topic in this issue) http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/viewissue.php?sf=34
Not required reading but here are
some additional papers on the HRV concept:
Duncan, S. and K.N. Johnson (eds). 2009. Historical and future ranges of variability. Ecology and Society 14(1) http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/viewissue.php?sf=42 a special feature (with 4 papers)
Parsons, D.J., T.W. Swetnam and N.L. Christensen. 1999. Uses and limitations of historical variability concepts in managing ecosystems. Ecological Applications 9:1177-1178.(Click to access the article through JSTORS)
Reeves, G.H., L.E. Benda, K.M. Burnett, P.A. Bisson
and J.R. Sedell. 1995. A disturbance-based ecosystem
approach to maintaining and restoring freshwater habitats of evolutionarily
significant units of anadromous salmonids
in the Pacific Northwest. American Fisheries Society Symposium
17:334-349. http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/viewpub.jsp?index=5611
Oct. 31: No readings. Review for
Mid-term Exam
October 31-November 3: Mid-term Exam
Reading #10 (Nov. 3-4)
Cohen, W.B., J.D. Kushla, W.J. Ripple and S.L. Garman. 1996. An introduction to digital methods in remote sensing of forested ecosystems: focus on the Pacific Northwest. Environmental Management 20(3):421-435. (Click here for .pdf file) (Click here for color figures from this paper)
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, G.G. Parker and D.J. Harding. 2002. Lidar remote sensing for ecosystem studies. Bioscience 52(1):19-30. (Click here for pdf file)
Reading #11 (Nov. 10-11)
Gustafson, E.J. and R.H. Gardner. 1996. The effect of landscape heterogeneity on the probability of patch colonization. Ecology 77:94-107. (Click here to view and print this document through JStors)
Belisle, M. 2005. Measuring landscape connectiviety: the challenge of behavioral landscape ecology. Ecology 86(8):1988-1995. (Click for pdf file)
Reading #12 (Nov. 12-14)
Tischendorf, L. 2001. Can landscape indices predict ecological processes consistently? Landscape Ecol. 16:235-254. (Click here to view and print article)
Langlois, J.P. L. Fahrig,
G. Merriam and H. Artsob. 2001.
Landscape structure influences continental distribution of hantavirus in deer mice.
Landscape Ecology
16(3):255-266. (Click
here to view and print article)
Reading #11 (Nov. 17-18) Landscape Genetics I
Manel, S., M.K. Schwartz, G. Luikars and P. Taberlet. 2003. Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 18(4):189-197 manel_etal_2003.pdf
Holderegger, R., U. Kamm and
F. Gugerli.
2006. Adaptive vs. neutral
genetic diversity: implications for landscape genetics. Landscape
Ecology 21:797-807. (Click
here to view and print article)
Reading #12 (Nov. 19-24) Landscape Genetics II
Cushman S.A., K.S. McKelvey, J. Hayden and M.K.
Schwartz. 2006. Gene flow in complex landscapes: testing
multiple hypotheses with causal modeling.
The American Naturalist 168(4):xxx-xxx. Cushman_etal_2006.pdf
November 26-28: No Class
(Thanksgiving Break)
Reading #14 (Dec 1-2) Metapopulations and Communities
Pulliam, H.R. 1988. Sources, sinks and population regulation. Amer. Nat.
132:652-661. (Click
to view through JSTORS)
Schumaker, N.H. T. Ernst, D White, J. Baker and P. Haggerty. 2004. Projecting wildlife responses to alternative future landscapes in Oregon’s Willamette basin. Ecological Applications 14(2):381-400. . (schumaker_etal_2004.pdf)
Just for fun, you might also read:
Pulliam, H.R. 1998. The political education of a biologist: Part I. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:199-202. Click here to view through JSTORS This paper is both depressing and amusing.
Pulliam, H.R. 1998. The political education of a biologist: Part II. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:499-503 Click here to view through JSTORS
Reading #13 (Dec 3-5) Ecosystem Processes: Hydrology
Jones, J.A., F.J. Swanson, B.C. Wemple and J.U. Snyder. 2000. Effects of roads on hydrology, geomorphology, disturbance patches in stream networks. Conservation Biology 14:76-85. . Click here to view article (Note that this issue of Conservation Biology includes a whole series of papers about road impacts on ecosystems)
Moscrip, AL and D.R. Montgomery. 1997. Urbanization, flood frequency and salmon abundance in Puget Lowland Streams. J. of the Amer. Water Resources Assoc. 33:1289-1297. Click here to view article
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