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The State of Art of Landscape Ecology: 20 Years of Paradigms and Methods

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In complete agreement with the thoughts of Kuhn (1962) scientific research similarly to other human activities provides a service that is intimately associated with time, place, and culture. In other words, scientific research intercepts the needs of human society and tries to describe the related processes. In particular over the last few years the landscape paradigm has become more and more popular. But it seems to the author an impossible mission to describe and monitor all the changes that have occurred along the geographical land zones around the world. As elucidated by Robert MacArthur (1972) every place on our Planet has a specific ecology and if we exclude the organismic teleonomy of the biological components (virus, bacteria, plants, and animals) that react to general metabolic allometric rules (Brown et al. 2004 ecosystems and landscapes appear to be systems functioning under local constraints and surrounding stochasticity.

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Farina, A. (2009). The State of Art of Landscape Ecology: 20 Years of Paradigms and Methods. In: Ecology, Cognition and Landscape., vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3138-9_1

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