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Table 3.1 The top 15 most cited papers that were published in landscape ecology based on data
from web of science (accessed on December 5, 2012)
Order
Author (year)
Article title
Vol
(issue)
Total
cites
Cites/
year
1
O'Neill et al.
(
1988
)
Indices of landscape pattern
1(3)
609
25.4
2
Franklin and
Forman
(
1987
)
Creating landscape patterns by forest cutting:
ecological consequences and principles
1(1)
456
18.2
3
Riitters et al.
(
1995
)
A factor-analysis of landscape pattern and
structure metrics
10(1)
378
22.2
4
Roth et al.
(
1996
)
Landscape influences on stream biotic integrity
assessed at multiple spatial scales
11(3)
374
23.4
5
Gardner et al.
(
1987
)
Neutral models for the analysis of broad-scale
landscape pattern
1(1)
352
14.1
6
Turner et al.
(
1989
)
Effects of changing spatial scale on the analysis
of landscape pattern
3(3-4)
349
15.2
7
Wu and Hobbs
(
2002
)
Key issues and research priorities in landscape
ecology: an idiosyncratic synthesis
17(4)
254
25.4
8
Hargis et al.
(
1998
)
The behavior of landscape metrics commonly
used in the study of habitat fragmentation
13(3)
240
17.1
9
Turner and
Romme
(
1994
)
Landscape dynamics in crown fire ecosystems
9(1)
237
13.2
10
Gustafson and
Parker
(
1992
)
Relationships between landcover proportion and
indexes of landscape spatial pattern
7(2)
233
11.7
11
Wu (
2004
)
Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern
analysis: scaling relations
19(2)
226
28.3
12
Andow et al.
(
1990
)
Spread of invading organisms
4(2-3)
225
10.2
13
Wiens and
Milne
(
1989
)
Scaling of 'landscapes' in landscape ecology, or,
landscape ecology from a beetle's perspective
3(2)
223
9.7
14
Turner (
1990
)
Spatial and temporal analysis of landscape
patterns
4(1)
208
9.5
15
Li and Wu
(
2004
)
Use and misuse of landscape indices
19(4)
205
25.6
climate change, ecosystems services, and sustainability have become increasingly
dominant in landscape ecology during the past two decades (Fig.
3.2
b). In addi-
tion, the top 15 most-cited papers published in Landscape Ecology since 1987
have been overwhelmingly dominated by topics of spatial pattern analysis and
scale-related issues (Table
3.1
; Fig.
3.3
a, b). Again, this is indicative of the field's
paramount emphasis on spatial heterogeneity and scale.
Particularly relevant to this chapter is that the number of publications on
urbanization or urban landscapes in the journal has increased rapidly during the
past two decades. This is not surprising because of several reasons. First, urban
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