Farina Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology

Towards a Science of the Landscape
2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5535-5
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Landscape Series

Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular ,new paradigms and theories such as percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source-sink models have been integrated in this last edition with the recent theories on bio-complexity, information and cognitive sciences.

Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geometry models and remote sensing in order to create confidence toward techniques and approaches that require a high experience and long-time dedication.

Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology is a textbook useful to present the landscape in a multi-vision perspective for undergraduate and graduate students of biology, ecology, geography, forestry, agronomy, landscape architecture and planning. Sociology, economics, history, archaeology,anthropology, ecological psychology are some sciences that can benefit of the holistic vision offered by this texbook.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farina, Almo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

to landscape ecology.- Theories and models incorporated in the landscape ecology framework.- Scaling patterns and processes across landscapes.- Emerging processes in the landscape.- Emerging patterns in the landscape.- Principles of landscape dynamics.- Principles for landscape conservation, management and design.- Methods in landscape ecology.

Über Autor(innen)

Almo Farina is Professor of Ecology at the Urbino University, Faculty of Environmental Sciences (Urbino, Italy).