Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology

by Edited by John A. Wiens , Michael R. Moss

• ISBN13: 9780521537544
• ISBN10: 0521537541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Through a series of personal essays, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays have been contributed by leading landscape ecologists from North America, Europe, and Australia, and provide an overview of the rich tapestry of viewpoints and perspectives that make landscape ecology at once a well-defined and yet also a frustratingly diverse discipline. The contributions span a range of topics and approaches, addressing theory as well as practice, science as well as application, conservation as well as utilization, and aquatic as well as terrestrial systems. The volume therefore provides informative and entertaining reading for beginning and advanced students, landscape managers, conservationists, and teachers.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Preface	xiii
PART I Introductory perspectives	1	(20)
When is a landscape perspective important?	3	(8)
Lenore Fahrig
Incorporating geographical (biophysical) principles in studies of landscape systems	11	(10)
Jerzy Solon
PART II Theory, experiments, and models in landscape ecology	21	(80)
Theory in landscape ecology	23	(6)
R. V. O'Neill
Hierarchy theory and the landscape...level? or, Words do matter	29	(7)
Anthony W. King
Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium landscapes	36	(6)
H. H. Shugart
Disturbances and landscapes: the little things count	42	(10)
John A. Ludwig
Scale and an organism-centric focus for studying interspecific interactions in landscapes	52	(18)
Ralph Mac Nally
The role of experiments in landscape ecology	70	(9)
Rolf A. Ims
Spatial modeling in landscape ecology	79	(11)
Jana Verboom
Wieger Wamelink
The promise of landscape modeling: successes, failures, and evolution	90	(11)
David J. Mladenoff
PART III Landscape patterns	101	(28)
Landscape pattern: context and process	103	(9)
Roy Haines-Young
The gradient concept of landscape structure	112	(8)
Kevin Mcgarigal
Samuel A. Cushman
Perspectives on the use of land-cover data for ecological investigations	120	(9)
Thomas R. Loveland
Alisa L. Gallant
James E. Vogelmann
PART IV Landscape dynamics on multiple scales	129	(50)
Landscape sensitivity and timescales of landscape change	131	(21)
Michael F. Thomas
The time dimension in landscape ecology: cultural soils and spatial pattern in early landscapes	152	(7)
Donald A. Davidson
Ian A. Simpson
The legacy of landscape history: the role of paleoecological analysis	159	(8)
Hazel R. Delcourt
Paul A. Delcourt
Landscape ecology and global change	167	(12)
Ronald P. Neilson
PART V Applications of landscape ecology	179	(78)
Landscape ecology as the broker between information supply and management application	181	(12)
Frans Klijn
Farmlands for farming and nature	193	(8)
Kathryn Freemark
Landscape ecology and forest management	201	(7)
Thomas R. Crow
Landscape ecology and wildlife management	208	(9)
Jorund Rolstad
Restoration ecology and landscape ecology	217	(13)
Richard J. Hobbs
Conservation planning at the landscape scale	230	(8)
Chris Margules
Landscape conservation: a new paradigm for the conservation of biodiversity	238	(10)
Kimberly A.
The ``why?'' and the ``so what?'' of riverine landscapes	248	(9)
Henri Decamps
PART VI Cultural perspectives and landscape planning	257	(72)
The nature of lowland rivers: a search for river identity	259	(15)
Bas Pedroli
Using cultural knowledge to make new landscape patterns	274	(7)
Joan Iverson Nassauer
The critical divide: landscape policy and its implementation	281	(15)
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand
Landscape ecology: principles of cognition and the political-economic dimension	296	(11)
Jan Ot' Ahel'
Integration of landscape ecology and landscape architecture: an evolutionary and reciprocal process	307	(9)
Jack Ahern
Landscape ecology in land-use planning	316	(13)
Rob H. G. Jongman
PART VII Retrospect and prospect	329	(45)
The land unit as a black box: a Pandora's box?	331	(15)
I. S. Zonneveld
Toward a transdisciplinary landscape science	346	(9)
Zev Naveh
Toward fostering recognition of landscape ecology	355	(10)
Michael R. Moss
Toward a unified landscape ecology	365	(9)
John A. Wiens
Index	374