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In this chapter, we define landscape ecology, briefly review its intellectual roots, introduce key concepts related to scale, and present an overview of the remainder of the book.
A new teacher could readily use this textbook alone to develop a solid course on the subject. All the basics of landscape ecology are covered in its 11 chapters, starting with the origins of the discipline, the definitions and theories of landscape, scale, patch, heterogeneity, dynamics, disturbance, connectivity, and spatial processes.
Landscape ecology is a young science without unique definition and concepts. A wide range of disciplines converge in the direction of landscape ecology; for this reason there are several definitions of landscape: • 'the total character of a region' (von Humboldt); • 'landscapes dealt with in their totality as physi
This novel and comprehensive text presents the principles, theory, methods, and applications of landscape ecology in an engaging and accessible format that is supplemented by numerous examples and case studies from a variety of systems, including freshwater and marine "scapes".
Landscape ecology is the study of the pattern and interaction between ecosystems within a region of interest, and the way the interactions affect ecological processes, especially the unique ...
What is landscape ecology? the study of both the causes of ecological pattern and the effects of pattern on ecological processes. -J. A. Wiens. Landscape ecology emphasizes broad spatial scales and the ecological effects of the spatial patterning of ecosystems.
In this chapter, we define landscape ecology, briefly review its intellectual roots, introduce key concepts related to scale, and present an overview of the remainder of the book. In addition, some commonly used terms in landscape ecology are defined in Table 1.1.
