RT Journal Article
T1 Magnitude and significance in landscape change
A1 López de Pablo, Carlos Tomás
A1 Roldán Martín, M. J.
A1 Martín de Agar, Pilar
AB Landscape is organised in mosaics: sets of patches with a defined pattern of boundaries through which patches interact. Changes in patches cause changes in mosaics. Landscape change has two components: a quantitative one, referring to the areas in which changes happen, and a qualitative one, referring to the degree of similarity among the mosaics substituting each other. The quantitative component informs on the magnitude of the change: the total area in which landscape mosaics have changed; the qualitative one informs on the significance thereof: the ecological differences between the mosaics substituting each other. This paper presents an index for quantifying landscape change and for discriminating between magnitude and significance therein. It was tested by study of changes in the landscape mosaics in Madrid, Spain. Results show that the index developed is useful for this purpose. This enables objective comparison of different landscape changes presenting different combinations of magnitude and significance.
PB Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
SN 1469-9710
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42892
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42892
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MICIT)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 13 jun 2025