Landscape ecology

Forman, R.T.T. & M. Godron, 1986, Landscape ecology, Wiley and Sons, New York

  • Author : Forman, R.T.T. & M. Godron
  • Year : 1986
  • Publisher : Wiley and Sons
  • Publisher's Location : New York
  • ISBN : 0-471-87037-4
  • Pages : 619
  • Abstract : A textbook on landscape ecology, which explores the constituents of the landscape in planning for its best and highest use. Ranging from wilderness to urban landscapes, the text focuses on the distribution patterns of landscape elements or ecosystems, the flows of animals, plants, energy, mineral nutrients and water among the elements and ecological changes in the landscape mosaic through time.
  • Comments : KEYWORDS: landscape, landscape ecology, nature conservation, landscape elements, corridor, landscape structure, landscape development. UTILITY: lecturers/teachers, academic research, students of universities of professional education. P. 11 “We can now define landscape as a heterogeneous area of land composed of a cluster of interacting ecosystems that is repeated in a similar form throughout. Landscapes vary in size down to a few kilometres in diameter. ...Localised areas of a few metres or hundreds of metres across are at a finer scale than landscape. Nevertheless, most of the principles of landscape ecology apply to ecological mosaics at any level of scale. ... ...landscape ecology studies both the principles concerning structure, function and change, and their application, that is the use of these principles in the formulation and solving of problems.”