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ArticleLandscape ecology2019

Influence of high-resolution data on the assessment of forest fragmentation.

J Wickham, K H Riitters

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Article in Landscape ecology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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J WickhamNational Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research Development, U.S. Environmental Protection, Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Dr.; MD: 343-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7409-7365
K H RiittersSouthern Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextRemote sensing has been a foundation of landscape ecology. The spatial resolution (pixel size) of remotely sensed land cover products has improved since the introduction of landscape ecology in the United States. Because patterns depend on spatial resolution, emerging improvements in the spatial resolution of land cover may lead to new insights about the scaling of landscape patterns.

objectiveWe compared forest fragmentation measures derived from very high resolution (1 m

methodsWe applied area-density scaling to binary (forest; non-forest) maps for both sources to derive source-specific estimates of dominant (density ≥ 60%), interior (≥ 90%), and intact (100%) forest.

resultsSwitching from low- to high-resolution data produced statistical and geographic shifts in forest spatial patterns. Forest and non-forest features that were "invisible" at low resolution but identifiable at high resolution resulted in higher estimates of dominant and interior forest but lower estimates of intact forest from the high-resolution source. Overall, the high-resolution data detected more forest that was more contagiously distributed even at larger spatial scales.

conclusionWe anticipate that improvements in the spatial resolution of remotely sensed land cover products will advance landscape ecology through reinterpretations of patterns and scaling, by fostering new landscape pattern measurements, and by testing new spatial pattern-ecological process hypotheses.

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Chesapeake Bay land coverForest spatial patternsNLCDSpatial resolution remote sensing

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PMCPMC7029708

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