Description
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.
In this book the authors take a "top down" approach. They believe that
Table of Contents
Part I The Presence of the Past, 1. Brief History of Landscape Ecology, 2. An Epistemology of Landscape Ecology, 3. The Presence of the Past, 4. Landforms and Landscapes, Part II The Ecology of Landscapes, 5. The Ecology in Landscape Ecology, 6. Landscape and Edge Effects on Population Dynamics: Approaches and Examples, Part III Landscape Theory and Practice, 7. The Re-Membered Landscape, 8. Quantifying Constraints upon Trophic and Migratory Transfers, Landscapes, 9. Land Use in America: The Forgotten Agenda, 10. The European Experience: From Site Protection to Ecological, Networks, 11. A Land Transformation Model for the Saginaw Bay Watershed, 12. Individual-Based Models on the Landscape: Applications to the Everglades, References, Index
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