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Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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This series presents studies that have used the paradigm of
landscape ecology. Other approaches, both to landscape and
landscape ecology are common, but in the last decade landscape
ecology has become distinct from its predecessors and its
contemporaries. Landscape ecology addresses the relationships among
spatial patterns, temporal patterns and ecological processes. The
effect of spatial configurations on ecological processes is
fundamental. When human activity is an important variable affecting
those relationships, landscape ecology includes it. Spatial and
temporal scales are as large as needed for comprehension of system
processes and the mosaic included may be very heterogeneous.
Intellec tual utility and applicability of results are valued
equally. The Inter national Association for Landscape Ecology
sponsors this series of studies in order to introduce and
disseminate some of the new knowledge that is being produced by
this exciting new environmental science. Gray Merriam Ottawa,
Canada Foreword This is a book about real nature, or as close to
real as we know - a nature of heterogeneous landscapes, wild and
humanized, fine-grained and coarse-grained, wet and dry, hilly and
flat, temperate and not so temper ate. Real nature is never
uniform. At whatever spatial scale we examine nature, we encounter
patchiness. If we were to look down from high above at a landscape
of millions of hectares, using a zoom lens to move in and out from
broad overview to detailed inspection of a square meter we would
see that patterns visible at different scales overlay one another."
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