Landscape ecology: concepts, methods, and applications/
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Enfield, New Hampshire:
Science Publishers,
2004, c2003
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Table of Contents:
- Emergence of Landscape Ecology in the History of Ecology
- History of ecology from its origin to the 1970s
- Autecology
- Synecology
- Ecology of ecosystems
- The emergence of landscape ecology
- The first developments of landscape ecology: ecological mapping
- Example of ecological mapping: Ducruc's inventory of natural resources
- The geosystem
- Environmental questions related to landscape transformation
- Consequences of forest fragmentation in the United States
- Changes in land use in Europe
- Response of governments and the scientific community
- The emergence of landscape ecology
- Recognition of Heterogeneity in Ecological Systems
- Heterogeneity depends on the nature of elements and scale on which the system is represented
- Heterogeneity is a factor of organization of ecological systems
- Heterogeneity is both spatial and temporal
- New methods to account for heterogeneity
- Taking Human Activities into Account in Ecological Systems
- Genesis of agrarian landscapes: example of hedged farms in western France
- The existing landscape structure is the result of past dynamics
- Human activities are the main factor of evolution of landscapes on the global level
- Explicit Accounting for Space and Time
- Spatially explicit representation of ecological systems
- Taking time into account in the analysis of ecological processes
- Historical information needed to understand evolutionary mechanisms of "natural" systems and their management.