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, ...
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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 provided by nature, the constraints on their use as well as the responding landscape.
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Fine in Pictorial Boards jacket. Science, Earth Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 286 pages with maps, charts, graphs, tables, b&w photos throughout. Contents include a series of articles each with one or two authors: History of landscape ecology in Europe, Beginnings of landscape ecology in america, Woods a habitat patches for birds in the Netherlands, Hedgerow network patterns and processes in France, Landscape patterns, disturbance, and management in the Pacific Northwest, Habitats of Chilie, Farmland mosaics, etc.
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