Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Evolving Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Scope and Concepts of Landscape Ecology as an Emerging Science

      • Isaak S. Zonneveld

      Pages 3-20

   3. The History of Landscape Ecology in Europe

      • Karl-Friedrich Schreiber

      Pages 21-33

   4. The Beginnings of Landscape Ecology in America

      • Richard T. T. Forman

      Pages 35-41

3. Energy, Nutrient, and Species Fluxes in a Mosaic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-44

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   2. Landscape Pattern and Its Effects on Energy and Nutrient Distribution

      • Paul G. Risser

      Pages 45-56

   3. Biogeochemical Cycles and Ecological Hierarchies

      • R. G. Woodmansee

      Pages 57-71

   4. Woods as Habitat Patches for Birds: Application in Landscape Planning in the Netherlands

      • W. Bert Harms, Paul Opdam

      Pages 73-97

   5. Hedgerow Network Patterns and Processes in France

      • Françoise Burel, Jacques Baudry

      Pages 99-120

   6. Ecological Processes in the Time and Space of Farmland Mosaics

      • Gray Merriam

      Pages 121-133

4. Natural and Human Processes Interacting to Cause Landscape Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-136

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   2. The Georgia Landscape: A Changing Resource

      • Eugene P. Odum, Monica G. Turner

      Pages 135-164

   3. Landscape Change in Mediterranean-Type Habitats of Chile: Patterns and Processes

      • Eduardo R. Fuentes

      Pages 165-190

   4. Landscape Patterns, Disturbance, and Management in the Pacific Northwest, USA

      • Frederick J. Swanson, Jerry F. Franklin, James R. Sedell

      Pages 191-213

5. Planning and Management of Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-216

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   2. Using Landscape Ecology in Planning and Management

      • Wolfgang Haber

      Pages 217-232

   3. Basic Premises and Methods in Landscape Ecological Planning and Optimization

      • Milan Ruzicka, Ladislav Miklos

      Pages 233-260

   4. Ecologically Sustainable Landscapes: The Role of Spatial Configuration

      • Richard T. T. Forman

      Pages 261-278

   5. Concluding Remarks

      • Isaak S. Zonneveld, Richard T. T. Forman

      Pages 279-280

Landscape Ecology is an emerging science of gaining momentum over the past few decades in the scientific as well as in the planning-management worlds. Although the field is rooted in biology and geography, the approaches to understanding the ecology of a landscape are highly divers. This hybrid vigor provides power to the field. One can no longer view a local ecosystem or land use in isolation from global areas and time frames. The surrounding landscape mosaic and the flows and movements in a landscape must be considered, especially the linkage between humans requiring resources provided by nature, the constraints on their use as well as the responding landscape.

• Landschaft
• Perspektiven
• biogeochemical cycles
• ecology
• ecosystem
• Ökologie

• Department of Land Resource Surveys and Rural Development, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands

  Isaak S. Zonneveld

• V.P.O. Department, Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Isaak S. Zonneveld

• Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Richard T. T. Forman

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