Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.
This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.
Chapters cover:
patches -- size, number, and location
edges and boundaries
corridors and connectivity
mosaics
summaries of case studies from around the world
Contents
Foreword Preface And Acknowledgments Foundations PART I. Principles -Patches -Edges And Boundaries -Corridors And Connectivity -Mosaics PART II. Practical Applications -Overview -Schematic Applications -Case Studies In Brief -Summary And Conclusion Additional References
