Almo Farina

Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Science of the Landscape

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Principles and methods of landscape ecology are intensively used to model and to manage disturbed landscapes and menaced pristine areas as well. Students and professionals can find a new version of "Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology" firstly published in 1998 by Chapman & Hall (London).

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 like 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 andMethods 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.

A relevant goal of this second edition is to increase confidence in the new generations of students and practitioners for considering the ecological systems as the result of the integration between ecosystemic (non spatial) and landscape (spatial) patterns and processes.

Almo Farina is Professor of Ecology at the Urbino University, Faculty of Environmental Sciences (Urbino, Italy).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402055355
• Artikelnr.: 43731324

Autorenporträt

Almo Farina is Professor of Ecology at the Urbino University, Faculty of Environmental Sciences (Urbino, Italy).

Inhaltsangabe

1.- Introduction to landscape ecology.- 2. Theories and models incorporated in the landscape ecology framework.- 3 Scaling patterns and processes across landscapes.- 4 Emerging processes in the landscape.- 5 Emerging patterns in the landscape.- 6 Principles of landscape dynamics.- 7 Principles for landscape conservation, management and design.- 8 Principles of soundscape ecology. - 9 Landscape economics and ecosystem services.- 10 Social dimension of the landscape.- 11 Sustainable landscapes.- 12 Climate changes across landscapes.- 13 Methods in landscape ecology. - 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Metrics in landscape ecology.- 13.3 The fractal geometry approach.- 13.4 Geographic Information Systems (GIS).- 13.5 Remote sensing in landscape ecology.- 13.6 Global Positioning Systems (GPS).- 13.7 Spatially Explicit Population Models (SEPM) to describe population patterns in a landscape.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the second edition

"The second edition of Almo Farina's 'Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology' gives a comprehensive, clearly structured and easily readable up-to-date overview on theories, concepts, principles and specific methods in modern landscape ecology. ... The whole book is well illustrated and contains numerous instructive tables, graphs and figures as well as a couple of colour photos. ... It is highly recommended not only to undergraduate and graduate students but also to everyone interested in landscape perspectives from an ecological point of view."(Norbert Hölzel, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 38 (4), December, 2008)