Beautifully produced, with high quality full color figures and images throughout, together with lively tables and boxes, chapter summary points and questions,Essentials is the first landscape ecology textbook I've seen that feels completely prepared to serve as the only assigned text for an introductory undergraduatecourse in landscape ecology...with this textbook, landscape ecology is now finally ready to become the mainstream university subject it was
always meant to be.
Kimberly A. With is a Professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. She is a two-time recipient of the award for Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology and has been recognized as a Distinguished Landscape Ecologist, the most prestigious honour bestowed by the U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), for her contributions to the field.