Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology: Towards a Science of the Landscape (Landscape Series)
Almo Farina
Language: English
Pages: 412
ISBN: 1402033281
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular ,new paradigms and theories such as percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source-sink models have been integrated in this last edition with the recent theories on bio-complexity, information and cognitive sciences.
Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geometry models and remote sensing in order to create confidence toward techniques and approaches that require a high experience and long-time dedication.
Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology is a textbook useful to present the landscape in a multi-vision perspective for undergraduate and graduate students of biology, ecology, geography, forestry, agronomy, landscape architecture and planning. Sociology, economics, history, archaeology, anthropology, ecological psychology are some sciences that can benefit of the holistic vision offered by this texbook.
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Incorporate information from the neighboring environment. This is in direct connection with the breadth of adaptation, colonization and survival to natural and human related stress. The animal perspective: As animals perceive landscape. This perspective is conceptually related to the human perceived landscape, although a substantial difference exists: In the first case, the scale at which the landscape is studied is a human scale. In the last case, the whole approach is scaled on direct or.
Composed by the temporary activation of life functions like foraging, resting, mating, drinking, orienting, patrolling, etc. Every function requires a specific spatial configuration of objects that in some cases are 33 Introduction to Landscape Ecology a 8 Duration 6 4 2 0 Distance b 7 6 5 4 3 Maximum range c 18 12 6 0 Area d 12 8 4 0 Ground speed e 2.5 1.5 0.5 0 1 2 3 Experience Figure 1-17. Correlation between flight experience and environmental effectivities in.
Many species at the upper limit of their altitudinal distribution and that the more vulnerable assemblages were understory insectivores and large canopy frugivores. The work of Kattan et al. (1994) is important from many points of view; firstly because the history of bird decline is fully documented and secondly because the effect of fragmentation in large part depends on the biogeography of the species and on the complexity of the foraging structure. Fragmentation produces changes in organism.
Communities: The importance of area and habitat quality in maximizing species capture in boreal old-growth forests. Biological Conservation 112: 319–328. Bierregaard, R.O. Jr., Lovejoy, T.E., Kapos, V., dos Santos, A.A., Hutchings, R.W. (1992) The biological dynamics of tropical rainforest fragments. BioScience 42: 859–866. Blacke, J.G. & Hoppes, G. (1986) Influence of resource abundance on use of treefall gaps by birds. Auk 103: 328–340. Blair, R. (2004) The effects of urban sprawl on birds at.
Landscape Ecology are clearly understood by students and practitioners in the field. Almo Farina was particularly qualified to write such a book. First, because of his personal involvement in education and in research and second, because of his intelligence of the needs of the international community: Almo served as the secretary of IALE, the International Association of Landscape Ecology as well as the general secretary of INTECOL, the International Association of Ecology for which he organized.