Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one region and repercussions...
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Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one region and repercussions in another. Landscape Ecology: A Top-Down Approach serves as a general introduction to this emerging area of study.
FEATURES
• Gives a historical perspective in order to assess and critique current conservation management practices
• Provides a complete understanding of the concept of Landscape Ecology
• Explores landforms and landscapes - an understanding of landforms and geomorphocological processes is essential in the understanding of the ecology of landscapes
• Discusses the fragmented landscape - focusing on the changes that need to be made for conservation management in the future
• Includes a complete discussion of habitat conservation planning
The rapid convergence of themes in ecology supports the study of the ecology of landscapes. Advances in this field will come from studies in landscape effects and the mobile organisms whose top-down effects create and maintain landscapes. Landscape Ecology: A Top-Down Approach supplies the basics for this work.
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THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST
Brief History of Landscape Ecology
An Epistemology of Landscape Ecology
The Presence of the Past
Landforms and Landscapes
THE ECOLOGY OF LANDSCAPES
The Ecology in Landscape Ecology
Landscape and Edge Effects on Population Dynamics: Approaches and Examples
LANDSCAPE THEORY AND PRACTICE
The Re-Membered Landscape
Quantifying Constraints upon Trophic and Migratory Transfers Landscapes
Land Use in America: The Forgotten Agenda
The European Experience: From Site Protection to Ecological Networks
A Land Transformation Model for the Saginaw Bay Watershed
Individual-Based Models on the Landscape: Applications to the Everglades