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Learning Landscape Ecology

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Bibliography

  • Aronoff, Stanley. 1989. Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective. WDL Publications, Ottawa. A good introduction to GIS, and also covers some remote sensing. Although this book is a little outdated, it still provides an easy-to-read presentation on GIS.

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  1. Joshua D. Greenberg
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  2. Miles G. Logsdon
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  1. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, USA

    Sarah E. Gergel

  2. Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

    Sarah E. Gergel

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Monica G. Turner

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Greenberg, J.D., Logsdon, M.G., Franklin, J.F. (2002). Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In: Gergel, S.E., Turner, M.G. (eds) Learning Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21613-8_3

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