Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology,9780521830539

Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology

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ISBN13: 9780521830539
ISBN10: 0521830532
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-05-16
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Through a series of personal essays, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays have been contributed by leading landscape ecologists from North America, Europe, and Australia, and provide an overview of the rich tapestry of viewpoints and perspectives that make landscape ecology at once a well-defined and yet also a frustratingly diverse discipline. The contributions span a range of topics and approaches, addressing theory as well as practice, science as well as application, conservation as well as utilization, and aquatic as well as terrestrial systems. The volume therefore provides informative and entertaining reading for beginning and advanced students, landscape managers, conservationists, and teachers.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
x
Preface xiii
PART I Introductory perspectives
1(20)
When is a landscape perspective important?
3(8)
Lenore Fahrig
Incorporating geographical (biophysical) principles in studies of landscape systems
11(10)
Jerzy Solon
PART II Theory, experiments, and models in landscape ecology
21(80)
Theory in landscape ecology
23(6)
R. V. O'Neill
Hierarchy theory and the landscape...level? or, Words do matter
29(7)
Anthony W. King
Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium landscapes
36(6)
H. H. Shugart
Disturbances and landscapes: the little things count
42(10)
John A. Ludwig
Scale and an organism-centric focus for studying interspecific interactions in landscapes
52(18)
Ralph Mac Nally
The role of experiments in landscape ecology
70(9)
Rolf A. Ims
Spatial modeling in landscape ecology
79(11)
Jana Verboom
Wieger Wamelink
The promise of landscape modeling: successes, failures, and evolution
90(11)
David J. Mladenoff
PART III Landscape patterns
101(28)
Landscape pattern: context and process
103(9)
Roy Haines-Young
The gradient concept of landscape structure
112(8)
Kevin Mcgarigal
Samuel A. Cushman
Perspectives on the use of land-cover data for ecological investigations
120(9)
Thomas R. Loveland
Alisa L. Gallant
James E. Vogelmann
PART IV Landscape dynamics on multiple scales
129(50)
Landscape sensitivity and timescales of landscape change
131(21)
Michael F. Thomas
The time dimension in landscape ecology: cultural soils and spatial pattern in early landscapes
152(7)
Donald A. Davidson
Ian A. Simpson
The legacy of landscape history: the role of paleoecological analysis
159(8)
Hazel R. Delcourt
Paul A. Delcourt
Landscape ecology and global change
167(12)
Ronald P. Neilson
PART V Applications of landscape ecology
179(78)
Landscape ecology as the broker between information supply and management application
181(12)
Frans Klijn
Farmlands for farming and nature
193(8)
Kathryn Freemark
Landscape ecology and forest management
201(7)
Thomas R. Crow
Landscape ecology and wildlife management
208(9)
Jorund Rolstad
Restoration ecology and landscape ecology
217(13)
Richard J. Hobbs
Conservation planning at the landscape scale
230(8)
Chris Margules
Landscape conservation: a new paradigm for the conservation of biodiversity
238(10)
Kimberly A. With
The ``why?'' and the ``so what?'' of riverine landscapes
248(9)
Henri Decamps
PART VI Cultural perspectives and landscape planning
257(72)
The nature of lowland rivers: a search for river identity
259(15)
Bas Pedroli
Using cultural knowledge to make new landscape patterns
274(7)
Joan Iverson Nassauer
The critical divide: landscape policy and its implementation
281(15)
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand
Landscape ecology: principles of cognition and the political--economic dimension
296(11)
Jan Ot' Ahel'
Integration of landscape ecology and landscape architecture: an evolutionary and reciprocal process
307(9)
Jack Ahern
Landscape ecology in land-use planning
316(13)
Rob H. G. Jongman
PART VII Retrospect and prospect
329(45)
The land unit as a black box: a Pandora's box?
331(15)
I. S. Zonneveld
Toward a transdisciplinary landscape science
346(9)
Zev Naveh
Toward fostering recognition of landscape ecology
355(10)
Michael R. Moss
Toward a unified landscape ecology
365(9)
John A. Wiens
Index 374

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