Landscape Ecology: A Top Down Approach
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Book Description
Landscape Ecology is a rapidly growing science of quantifying the ways in which ecosystems interact. It establishes the links between activities in one region and repercussions in another. This book, which is a general introduction to this relatively new and emerging area, takes what the author calls a top-down approach. The author believes that context is equally as important as content and that an isolated, dismembered landscape fragment will lose biodiversity. This is in contrast to previous and current ecosystem studies that have not focused on outside influences. The author argue that the most detailed models of biodiversity within a landscape will not predict the outcome of management practices if the contextual analysis reveals that human impacts outside the landscape are contributing to a reserves ultimate demise. The author will demonstrate that protecting disconnected vignettes of nature in isolated national parks and reserves or saving hot-spots of biodiversity will not work.
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Provides an historical perspective to assess and critique current conservation management practices and a complete understanding of the concept of landscape ecology. Explores landforms and landscapes, discusses the fragmented landscape and habitat conservation planning.
Landscape Ecology: A Top Down Approach,James Sanderson,CRC,1566703689,Ecology,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Landscape ecology,Life Sciences - Ecology,Nature/Ecology,Science,Conservation of the environment,Nature / Ecology,Urban & municipal planning
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