Overview
- Specifically devoted to class room education
- Comprehensive vision of the landscape ecology
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 3)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Almo Farina is Professor of Ecology at the Urbino University, Faculty of Environmental Sciences (Urbino, Italy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology
Book Subtitle: Towards a Science of the Landscape
Authors: Almo Farina
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3329-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3328-5Published: 27 March 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5535-5Published: 22 January 2008
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 412
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph.
Topics: Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Environmental Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture