For example, Thogmartin (1999) suggested that wild turkey nest site selection and success likely depends on patterns and processes at multiple spatial scales such as fine-scale vegetation structure within patches (nest site), broader scale land cover composition and configuration, and mesocarnivore densities.
Abundant and extensive regrowth typically has significant implications such as risks to human wellbeing (e.g. wildfire), and opportunities for low cost broad-scale land restoration and biodiversity conservation.
Our goal was to assess different methods to reconstruct land cover and land use from historical maps to identify a time-efficient and reliable method for broad-scale land cover change analysis.
Despite this potential though, no global ground-observation dataset which would allow for interpolating broad-scale land use intensity metrics currently exists to our knowledge.
In contrast to the contiguous 48 states where ecologic cause-and-effect relationships are confounded by multiple broad-scale land-use alterations Alaska is characterized by vast stretches of wilderness punctuated by local and self-contained disturbances such as roads and small towns.
I had already been attuned to this philosophy through the work of Rene Dubos and — on a broader scale — the "land ethic" of Aldo Leopold.
At the broadest scale (1 250,000 100,000), land systems of territorial contexts (LSTCs) were detected by overlaying climatic, lithomorphological and topological maps.
The applied methodology that are used for habitat description – classification was based on broad scale GIS of the Egyptian lands.
In this large region, rapid expansion of human footprint, ongoing regional land use planning and heightened interest in broad scale environmental monitoring have deepened the importance of effective evaluation of how communities change with human land use at a regional scale.
The first conservation plan was derived using broad scale data (1 250,000) and consisted of nine broad habitat units (land classes based on topography, geology, and climate), remote sensing mapping of habitat transformation and large planning units defined by 1/16th degree squares (average size 3900 ha).
This paper, then, considers four factors: driving forces identified through the construction of a historical survey; land use and cover maps (LUCC) at broad scale, cross tabulation, flux diagram, and dominance index; the landscape evolution phases identified using LUCC and driving forces; and landscape cracking and change-vectors defined at fine scale using conservation and degradation indexes.
