Luís Quinta-Nova

8 Questions 14 Answers 0 Followers

Questions related from Luís Quinta-Nova

Can anyone tell me if the PCDEQ (Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence Questionnaire) is available is Portuguese or Spanish?

I intend to use the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence Questionnaire (PCDEQ), developed and validated by MacNamara & Collins (2011, 2013), in a study in Portugal. In order...

12 December 2017 5,438 3 View

How can I calculate the overall values of landscape metrics with LecoS plug-in (QGIS)?

When we use the LecoS plug-in of QGIS, the output only shows the metrics' values by class for a given area. However when we use the Patch Analyst extension of ArcGIS, apart to get the values by...

07 July 2015 6,863 4 View

How can we define the best cell size according to the niche or range limits of a given species in Landscape Ecology studies?

The type and number of variables comprising the dimensions of an environmental niche vary from one species to another and the relative importance of particular environmental variables for a...

05 May 2015 858 10 View

Which is the best method to measure the solar radiation that passes through a forest canopy?

Some herbaceous plants in the understory of forests are dependent of the quantity of light that are not intercepted by the forest canopy in order to flourish and have seeds to sexually propagate;...

11 November 2014 2,011 17 View

Can anyone suggest a multicriteria method for land-suitability evaluation?

To evaluate the land-suitability for agriculture and forestry one can apply different GIS-based multicriteria methods (e.g. Analytical Hierarchy Process - AHP). Which one is more suitable?

01 January 2014 1,486 22 View

How to develop more accurate GIS-based habitat models?

Habitat usage by animal species is driven by availability of food, nest sites, protection from predators, presence of competitors or facilitating species, etc. However GIS-based models typically...

05 May 2013 1,966 7 View

Does anyone know about surface metrics software, as an alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure?

The quantiﬁcation of landscape structure is generally considered prerequisite to the study of pattern-process relationships. In some papers a variety of surface metrics (not landscape metrics) are...

03 March 2013 6,840 11 View

Does anyone knows where I can find information about autoecology of Quercus species that occur in Iberian Peninsula?

We are performing a study that intends to relate the natural regeneration of Quercus species - Q. pyrenaica, Q. suber, Q. rotundifolia, Q. robur, Q. faginea - in the center-eastern part of...

01 January 1970 4,412 6 View