ABSTRACT
The relationship between landscape ecology and geographic information systems (GISs) is a very interesting one to consider. The former is theoretical in nature, while the latter is a more technological development of the last decade. Landscape ecology could be seen as providing the theoretical basis for the applications developed in GIS. However, GIS can help in perceiving how spatial patterns occur and how they change over time, providing an insight into the complex interactions between physical, climatic, biological, ecological and human processes, in order to provide new theories and to expand the understanding of landscape dynamics.
