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| Zaccarelli, Nicola; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; nicola.zaccarelli@unile.it; Petrosillo, Irene; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; irene.petrosillo@unile.it; Zurlini, Giovanni; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; giovanni.zurlini@unile.it; Riitters, Kurt Hans; U.S. Forest Service; kriitters@fs.fed.us. |
| Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account the scales and patterns of human land uses as source/sink disturbance systems, we describe a framework to characterize and interpret the spatial patterns of disturbances along a continuum of scales in a panarchy of nested jurisdictional social-ecological landscapes (SELs) like region, provinces, and counties. We detect and quantify those scales through the patterns of disturbance relative to land use/land cover exhibited on satellite imagery over a 4-yr period in the Apulia region, South Italy. By using moving windows to measure composition (amount) and spatial configuration (contagion) of... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Disturbance mismatches; Disturbance source/sink; Multiscale disturbance patterns; Panarchy; Social-ecological landscapes.. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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