Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process - Softcover

Turner, Monica G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387951237 ISBN 13: 9780387951232

Verlag: Springer New York, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

An ideal text for students taking a course in landscape ecology. The book has been written by very well-known practitioners and pioneers in the new field of ecological analysis. Landscape ecology has emerged during the past two decades as a new and exciting level of ecological study. Environmental problems such as global climate change, land use change, habitat fragmentation and loss of biodiversity have required ecologists to expand their traditional spatial and temporal scales and the widespread availability of remote imagery, geographic information systems, and desk top computing has permitted the development of spatially explicit analyses. In this new text book this new field of landscape ecology is given the first fully integrated treatment suitable for the student. Throughout, the theoretical developments, modeling approaches and results, and empirical data are merged together, so as not to introduce barriers to the synthesis of the various approaches that constitute an effective ecological synthesis. The book also emphasizes selected topic areas in which landscape ecology has made the most contributions to our understanding of ecological processes, as well as identifying areas where its contributions have been limited. Each chapter features questions for discussion as well as recommended reading.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0387951237
• ISBN 13: 9780387951232
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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