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Research
areas at LESL include: Landscape
Ecology, Urban
Ecology, Biodiversity
and Ecosystem
Functioning,
and Sustainability
Science.
Our research focuses on the following topics: (1) the effects of
landscape pattern on
population and ecosystem processes, (2) urbanization and its ecological
consequences, (3) biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services,
(4) scaling of patterns and processes in landscapes, and (5)
sustaianbility measures and models.
Our research approaches combine theoretical and
empirical
methods, with the extensive use of remote
sensing, GIS,
spatial analyses, and simulation modeling.
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