Robert H. Gardner, Director and Professor

• Landscape ecology; systems analysis; disturbances
• Analysis and prediction of changes in ecosystem dynamics with changes in scale
• Development of new approaches for predicting ecological dynamics in spatially heterogeneous systems

• Qrule - A computer program for landscape hypothesis testing.
• CAPS - A spatially explicit neutral model for community development.
• PDW - A program for rescaling map resolution.

 

1975  Ph.D.

1967  M.A.

1966  B.A.

• Lookingbill, T. R., R. H. Gardner, L. A. Wainger, C. L. Tague. in press . Landscape Modelling. Encyclopedia of Ecology, S. E. Jorgensen, ed. Elsevier.
• Sá, A. C. L., Pereira, J. M. C., and Gardner, R. H. in press . Analysis of the relationship between spatial pattern and spectral detectability of areas burned in southern Africa using satellite data . International Journal of Remote Sensing.
• Gardner, R. H. and Urban, D. L. in press . Neutral models for testing landscape hypotheses. Landscape Ecology.
• Gardner, R. H., Forester, J. D. and Plotnick, R. E., in press . Determining pattern-process relationships in heterogeneous landscapes. In: Wu, J. and Hobbs, R. J. (Eds.), Key Topics and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press.
• Cary, G. J., R. E. Keane, R. H. Gardner, S. Lavorel, M. D. Flannigan, I. D. Davies, C. Li, J. M. Lenihan, T. S. Rupp, and F. Mouillot. 2006. Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather. Landscape Ecology 21:121-137.
• Keane, R. E., Cary, G. J., Davies, I. D., Flannigan, M. D., Gardner, R. H., Lavorel, S., Lenihan, J. M., Li, C., Rupp, S. T. 2004. A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics. Ecological Modelling 179: 3-27.
• Shen, W., G. D. Jenerette, J. Wu and R. H. Gardner. 2004. Evaluating empirical scaling relations of pattern metrics with simulated landscapes. Ecography 27: 459-469.
• Peters, D. P. C., Urban, D. L., Gardner, R. H., Breshears, D. D. and Herrick, J. E., 2004. Strategies for ecological extrapolation. Oikos 106, 627-636.
• Gardner, R. H. and Gustafson, E. J., 2004. Simulating dispersal of reintroduced species within heterogeneous landscapes. Ecological Modelling, 171: 339-358. (nutshell)
• Petersen, J. E., W. M. Kemp, W. R. Boynton, C-C Chen, J. C. Cornwell, R. H. Gardner, D. Hinkle, E.D. Houde, V.S. Kennedy, T.C. Malone, W.P. Mowitt, L. Murray, M.R. Roman, L.P. Sanford, J.C. Stevenson, K.L. Sundberg, S.E. Suttles. 2003. Multi-scale experiments in coastal ecology: Improving realism and advancing theory. BioScience 53: 1181-1197.
• Gardner, R.H., and D.L. Urban. 2003. Model validation and testing: Past lessons, present concerns, future prospects. Pp. 184-203 In: Canham, C.D., J.J. Cole, and W.K. Lauenroth, editors. Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
• Plotnick, R. E., and R. H. Gardner. 2002 . A general model for simulating the effects of landscape heterogeneity and disturbance on community patterns. Ecological Modelling, 147: 171-197. (UMCES Contribution No. 3554).

Landscape Ecology, MEES 614 (4 credits) - fall of even-numbered years

Development and effects of broad-scale patterns of ecological phenomena, the role of disturbance in ecosystems, and the characteristic spatial and temporal scales of ecological events. A variety of concepts important in landscape ecology, including: the structure and function of landscapes; identifying and modeling landscape pattern; the concept of disturbance, succession and landscape equilibrium; the implications of global climate change.