Proceedings of the European IALE Congress held at University of Wales, Bangor, September 2000
Edited by Tom Clare and David Howard.
Session 1. Linking socio-economic driving forces to landscape ecology
Linking socio-economic driving forces to landscape ecology
R. McFarlane .. 3
Objective and subjective assessments of environmental quality: a case study
J. Boothby .. 15
Socio-economic forces in Gozo (Maltese Islands) and landscape ecology analysis.
S.M. Haslam .. 25
Wildlife management on industrial sites
A. Cooper, G. Nevin, I. Herbert and H. Shackle .. 33
Landscape ecology, EIA and sustainable landscapes
M.B. Potschin and R.H. Haines-Young .. 39
Quantifying the cultural dimension with particular reference to village landscapes in north west England
T. Clare and S. Hammond .. 49
Session 2. Analysis of temporal change at a landscape scale
Estimating change in landscape elements using different sample sizes
D.C. Howard and C.J. Barr .. 61
Analysis of the temporal change in the lignite mining region south of Leipzig using GIS and landscape metrics
A. Lausch and F.Biederman .. 71
Measuring woodland changes in the Snowdonia National Park
A. Gkaraveli and J.H. Williams .. 83
The vegetation of ecological compensation areas in the Swiss plateau – a preliminary evaluation
S. Dreier, G. Hofer, D. Knecht and F. Herzog .. 93
Session 3. Modelling ecological change in the landscape
Biodiversity and landscape interactions on Scottish farmland
D.I. McCracken, P. Dennis, A.L. Milligan,L.J. Cole, I.S. Downie, K.J. Murphy, R.W. Furness, A. Waterhouse, G.N. Foster and J.A. Milne97
Modelling consequences on butterfly mobility of rural landscape dynamics.
A.Ouin, M. Manuel and F.Burel .. 107
Mathematical modelling of land use diversity change in south-eastern Europe: the case of Albania
F. Papadimitriou .. 115
The Lorenz curve as an indicator of scale effect on map information content
J. Bogaert, R. Rousseau, P. Van Hecke, D. Salvador-Van Eysenrode and R. Ceulmans121
Use of GIS in determining core areas of a Regional Ecological Network
S.A. Clarke and J. Boothby .. 131
The use of landscape metrics to model land cover change
A.J.Comber, R.V. Birnie and M. Hodgson .. 143
The barn owl (Tyto alba) on Anglesey (Ynys Môn): habitat suitability modeling for improved targeting of conservation measures and monitoring issues
C.P. Webb, I.T. Cartwright and I.M. Harris .. 163
Session 4. Impacts of isolation within a landscape
Birds in woodland fragments - not just who and where, but also what, how many and how good
S.A. Hinsley and P.E. Bellamy .. 169
Is isolation a problem for English Lizard Orchids?
P.D. Carey .. 177
Genetic impact of habitat isolation on the Heath Fritillary in Kent, UK
G.H. Griffiths, G.J. Holloway, P. Richardson and D.C. Howard .. 185