Abstract
Three relatively distinct major themes emerge from the chapters of this book. I will first introduce and briefly explore a key question of ethics, as this is a foundation of all planning, management, and individual actions in landscapes. The second section will focus on how landscape heterogeneity affects the spread of disturbance, the subject of this book and a 1986 symposium held in Athens, Georgia. The final section considers the growth of landscape ecology, as both the conceptual and applied framework for this volume.
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Forman, R.T.T. (1987). The Ethics of Isolation, the Spread of Disturbance, and Landscape Ecology. In: Turner, M.G. (eds) Landscape Heterogeneity and Disturbance. Ecological Studies, vol 64. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4742-5_12
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