Landscape Ecology

ISBN-13: 9780471870371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 640 str.

Richard T. T. Foreman; Richard T. T. Forman;Forman

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This is the first textbook on landscape ecology, which explores the constituents of the landscape in planning for its best and highest use. Ranging from wilderness to urban landscapes, the text focuses on the distribution patterns of landscape elements or ecosystems, the flows of animals, plants, energy, mineral nutrients and water among the elements and ecological changes in the landscape mosaic through time.

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OVERVIEW The Landscape and Major Principles.

Ecological Concepts in Brief.

LANSCAPE STRUCTURE Patches.

Corridors.

Matrix and Network.

Overall Structure.

LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS Natural Processes in Landscape Development.

The Human Role in Landscape Development.

Flows Between Adjacent Landscape Elements.

Animal and Plant Movement Across a Landscape.

Landscape Functioning.

Landscape Change.

HETEROGENEITY AND MANAGEMENT Heterogeneity and Typology.

Landscape Management.

Index.