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9781559635141

Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

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    9781559635141

  • ISBN10:

    1559635142

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-01-07
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS

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Summary

Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.Chapters cover: patches -- size, number, and location edges and boundaries corridors and connectivity mosaics summaries of case studies from around the world

Table of Contents

FOREWORD 5(2)
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7(2)
FOUNDATIONS
9(10)
Time Changes
9(3)
Objectives
12(1)
Development of landscape ecology
12(2)
Landscape ecology today
14(5)
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES 19(28)
Patches
19(8)
Patch size: Large or small?
20(2)
Patch number: How many?
22(2)
Patch location: Where?
24(3)
Edges and boundaries
27(8)
Edge structure
28(1)
Boundaries: Straight or convoluted?
29(2)
Shpaes of patches: Round or convoluted?
31(4)
Corridors and Connectivity
35(6)
Corridors for species movement
36(1)
Stepping stones
37(1)
Road and windbreak barriers
38(1)
Stream and river corridors
39(2)
Mosaies
41(6)
Networks
42(2)
Fragmentation and pattern
44(1)
Scale: Fine or coarse?
45(2)
PART TWO: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 47(22)
Sehematic Applications
49(8)
Case studies in brief
57(12)
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 69(2)
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES 71

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