Part I. What is a landscape?: basic concepts and tools -- 1. Introduction to remote sensing / Nicholas C. Coops and Thoreau Rory Tooke -- 2. Historical aerial photography for landscape analysis / Jessica L. Morgan, Sarah E. Gergel, Collin Ankerson, Stephanie A. Tomscha, and Ira J. Sutherland -- 3. Citizen science for assessing landscape change / Jeffrey A. Cardille and Michelle M. Jackson -- Part II. Fundamentals of quantifying landscape pattern -- 4. Understanding landscape metrics / Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner -- 5. Scale detection with semivariograms and autocorrelograms / Michael W. Palmer and Daniel J. McGlinn -- 6. Characterizing categorical map patterns using neutral landscape models / Robert H. Gardner -- 7. What constitutes a significant difference in landscape pattern? / Tarmo K. Remmel and Marie-Josée Fortin -- Part III. Landscape change and disturbance -- 8. Introduction to Markov models / Dean L. Urban and David O. Wallin -- 9. Simulating management actions and their effect on forest landscape pattern / Eric J. Gustafson -- 10. Regional and continental-scale perspectives on landscape pattern / Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner -- 11. Using spatial statistics and landscape metrics to compare disturbance mosaics / Monica G. Turner and Martin Simard -- Part IV. Applications for conservation and assessing connectivity -- 12. Assessing multi-scale landscape connectivity using network analysis / Todd R. Lookingbill and Emily S. Minor -- 13. Systematic conservation planning with Marxan / Matthew E. Watts, Romola R. Stewart, Tara G. Martin, Carissa J. Klein, Josie Carwardine, and Hugh P. Possingham -- 14. Connectivity as the amount of reachable habitat: conservation priorities and the roles of habitat patches in landscape networks / Santiago Saura and Begoña de la Fuente -- 15. Linking landscapes and metacommunities / Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert -- Part V. Ecosystem processes and feedbacks in social-ecological landscapes -- 16. Modeling spatial dynamics of ecosystem processes and services / Sarah E. Gergel and Tara Reed -- 17. Heterogeneity in ecosystem services: multi-scale carbon management in tropical forest landscapes / Kathryn R. Kirby, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, and Sarah E. Gergel -- 18. Regime shifts and spatial resilience in a coral reef seascape / Jennifer C. Selgrath, Garry D. Peterson, Matilda Thyresson, Magnus Nyström, and Sarah E. Gergel -- 19. Understanding land-use feedbacks and ecosystem service trade-offs in agriculture / Lisa A. Schulte and John C. Tyndall -- 20. Social networks: uncovering social-ecological (mis)matches in heterogeneous marine landscapes / Örjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona.