An improved neutral landscape model for recreating real landscapes and generating landscape series for spatial ecological simulations.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have assessed the effect of landscape patterns on spatial ecological processes by simulating these processes in computer-generated landscapes with varying composition and configuration. To generate such landscapes, various neutral landscape models have been developed. However, the limited set of landscape-level pattern variables included in these models is often inadequate to generate landscapes that reflect real landscapes. In order to achieve more flexibility and variability in the generated landscapes patterns, a more complete set of class- and patch-level pattern variables should be implemented in these models. These enhancements have been implemented in Landscape Generator (LG), which is a software that uses optimization algorithms to generate landscapes that match user-d

SUBMITTER: van Strien MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865471 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature