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Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology

Towards a Science of the Landscape

Almo Farina author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Published:27th Mar '07

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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.

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)

ISBN: 9781402033285

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 654g

412 pages

2nd ed. 2006