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.

An ecological survey, bringing together the work of 41 specialists. They describe the people, geology and soils, climate, water and aquatic ecosystems, vegetation patterns, plants and animals, and animal communities of the Pine Barrens, a 2000 square mile forested landscape in New Jersey.

A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficient services with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Awarness of the environmental impacts of roads is increasing, yet information remains scarce for those interested in studying, understanding, or minimizing the ecological effects of roads and vehicles. Road Ecology addresses that shortcoming by elevating previously localized and fragmented knowledge into a broad and inclusive framework for understanding and developing solutions. The book brings together...

Landscape Ecology is an emerging science of gaining momentum over the past few decades in the scientific as well as in the planning-management worlds. Although the field is rooted in biology and geography, the approaches to understanding the ecology of a landscape are highly divers. This hybrid vigor provides power to the field. One can no longer view a local ecosystem or land use in isolation from global areas and time frames. The surrounding landscape mosaic and the flows and movements in a landscape must be considered, especially the linkage between humans requiring resources...