Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways
ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one
region and repercussions in another. Landscape Ecology: A Top-Down
Approach serves as a general introduction to this emerging area of
study. In this book the authors take a "top down" approach. They
believe that context is equally as important as content and that an
isolated, dismembered landscape fragment loses biodiversity. In
contrast, past and current ecosystem studies have not considered
the consequences of outside influences. The authors argue that the
most detailed mathematical models of biodiversity within a
landscape do not suffice to predict the outcome of management
practices if the contextual analysis reveals that human impacts
outside the landscape contribute to a reserve's ultimate demise.
The material presented in this book demonstrates that protecting
disconnected vignettes of nature in isolated national parks and
reserves, or saving so-called "hot spots" of biodiversity, does not
work. The rapid convergence of themes in ecology supports the study
of the ecology of landscapes. Advances in this field will come from
studies in landscape effects and the mobile organisms whose top
down effects create and maintain landscapes. Landscape Ecology: A
Top Down Approach supplies the basics for this work.
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