Essentials of Landscape Ecology

Human activity during the Anthropocene has transformed landscapes worldwide on a scale that rivals or exceeds even the largest of natural forces. Landscape ecology has emerged as a science to investigate the interactions between natural and anthropogenic landscapes and ecological processes across a...

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Main Author: With, Kimberly A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2019
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. An introduction to landscape ecology : foundation and core concepts
  • 2. Scaling issues in landscape ecology
  • 3. Landscape heterogeneity and dynamics
  • 4. Landscape pattern analysis
  • 5. Landscape connectivity
  • 6. Landscape effects on individual movement and dispersal : behavioral landscape ecology
  • 7. Landscape effects on population distributions and dynamics
  • 8. Landscape effects on population spatial spread : range shifts, biological invasions, and landscape epidemiology
  • 9. Landscape genetics : landscape effects on gene flow and population genetic structure
  • 10. Landscape effects on community structure and dynamics
  • 11. Landscape effects on ecosystem structure and function