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Publications
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| The following is a list of publications from the Landscape Ecology Program. All documents (i.e., abstracts and papers) are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. | |
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Books
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| Leitão, A.B., J. Miller, J. Ahern,
and K. McGarigal. 2006. Measuring Landscapes: A Planners Handbook.
Island Press, Washington, D.C. |
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McGarigal, K., S. A. Cushman, and S. G. Stafford. 2000. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research. Springer-Verlag, New York. Click on the picture to the right to learn more about this book, how to get it, how to download the datasets used in the book, and our plans for a second edition. |
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McGarigal, K., S. A. Cushman, and E. Ene. In prep. Landscape Metrics: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Use and Interpretation. Click on the picture to the right to learn more about our plans for this book and when we anticipate its release. |
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Refereed
Journal Articles
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| Timm, B. C., K. McGarigal, and L. R. Gamble. (Accepted). Emigration timing of juvenile pond-breeding amphibians in western Massachusetts. Journal of Herpetology. | |
| Timm, B.C., K. McGarigal, and C.L. Jenkins. (Accepted). Emigration orientation of juvenile pond-breeding amphibians in western Massachusetts. Copeia. | |
| Timm, B. C., K. McGarigal, and B. W. Compton. (In press). Timing of large movement events of pond-breeding amphibians in western Massachusetts, USA. Biological Conservation. | |
| Compton, B.W., K. McGarigal, S.A. Cushman, and L.R. Gamble. (In press). A resistant kernel model of connectivity for vernal pool amphibians. Conservation Biology. | |
| Jenkins, C. L., K. McGarigal, and B. C. Timm. 2006.
Orientation of movements and habitat selection in a spatially-structured
population of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum). J. of Herpetology
40(2):240-248. |
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| Gamble, L. R., K. McGarigal, C. L. Jenkins, and B. C.
Timm. 2006. Limitations of regulated "buffer zones" for the
conservation of marbled salamanders. Wetlands 26(2):298-306. |
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| Neel, M. C., K. McGarigal, and S. A. Cushman. 2004. Behavior of class-level landscape metrics across gradients of class aggregation and area. Landscape Ecology 19:435-455. | |
| Cushman, S. A., and K. McGarigal. 2004. Choice of response variable in multi-scale studies of species-environment relationships. Oikos 105:117-124. | |
| Cushman, S. A., and K. McGarigal. 2004. Hierarchical analysis of forest bird species-environment relationships in the Oregon Coast Range. Ecological Applications 14:1090-1105. | |
| Cushman, S. A., and K. McGarigal. 2003. Landscape-level patterns of avian diversity in the Oregon Coast Range. Ecological Monographs 73:259-281. | |
| Jenkins, C. L., K. McGarigal, and L. Gamble. 2003. Comparative effectiveness of two trapping techniques for surveying the abundance and diversity of forest floor vertebrates along drift fence array. Herpetological Review 34:39-42 | |
| Thompson, C. M., and K. McGarigal. 2002. The influence of research scale on bald eagle habitat selection along the lower Hudson River, New York. Landscape Ecology 17:569-586. | |
| Cushman, S. A., and K. McGarigal. 2002. Hierarchical, multi-scale decomposition of species-environment relationships. Landscape Ecology 17:637-646. | |
| McGarigal, K., and S. A. Cushman. 2002. Comparative evaluation of experimental approaches to the study of habitat fragmentation. Ecological Applications12(2):335-345. | |
| Jenkins, C. L., K. McGarigal, and L. Gamble. 2002. A comparison of aquatic surveying techniques used to sample Ambystoma opacum larvae. Herpetological Review 33:33-35. | |
| McGarigal, K., W. H. Romme, M. R. Crist, and E. T. Roworth. 2001. Cumulative effects of logging and road-building on landscape structure in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado. Landscape Ecology 16:327-349. | |
| McGarigal, K., and W. C. McComb. 1995. Relationships between landscape structure and breeding birds in the Oregon Coast Range. Ecological Monographs 65(3):235-260. | |
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Book
Chapters
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| Cushman, S.A. and K. McGarigal. (In press). Multi-variate landscape
trajectory analysis: An example using simulation modeling of American marten
habitat change under three disturbance regimes. Pages xx-xx in J.A. Bissonnette
and I. Storch, eds., Temporal Explicitness in Landscape Ecology: Wildlife
Responses to Changes in Time. Springer, New York. |
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| McGarigal, K., and S. Cushman. 2005. The gradient concept of landscape structure. Pages 112-119 in J. Wiens and M. Moss, eds. Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. | |
| McGarigal, K. 2002. Landscape pattern metrics. Pages 1135-1142 in A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch, eds. Encyclopedia of Environmentrics Volume 2: 1135-1142. John Wiley & Sons, Sussex, England. | |
| McGarigal, K., and W. C. McComb. 1999. Forest fragmentation effects on breeding birds in the Oregon Coast Range. Pages 223-246 in J.A. Rochelle, L.A. Lehman, and J. Wisniewski, eds. Forest fragmentation: wildlife and management implications. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. | |
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Techical
Papers/Reports
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| McGarigal, K. (In press). Habitat fragmentation. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, K. K. Kemp, ed. | |
| McGarigal, K., and B. J. Marks. 1995. FRAGSTATS: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-351. | |
| McGarigal, K., S. A. Cushman, and C. Reagan. (In prep). Quantifying habitat loss and fragmentation: A protocol. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM. | |
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Kevin McGarigal
Department of Natural Resources Conservation
University of Massachusetts
304 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center
Box 34210
Amherst, MA 01003
Fax: (413) 545-4358
Phone: (413) 577-0655
Email: mcgarigalk@forwild.umass.edu