List of contributors | page x | |||||
Preface | xiii | |||||
PART I Introductory perspectives | 1 | |||||
| 1 | When is a landscape perspective important? | 3 | ||||
| LENORE FAHRIG | ||||||
| 2 | Incorporating geographical (biophysical) principles in studies of landscape systems | 11 | ||||
| JERZY SOLON | ||||||
| PART II Theory, experiments, and models in landscape ecology | 21 | |||||
| 3 | Theory in landscape ecology | 23 | ||||
| R. V. O’NEILL | ||||||
| 4 | Hierarchy theory and the landscape…level? or, Words do matter | 29 | ||||
| ANTHONY W. KING | ||||||
| 5 | Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium landscapes | 36 | ||||
| H. H. SHUGART | ||||||
| 6 | Disturbances and landscapes: the little things count | 42 | ||||
| JOHN A. LUDWIG | ||||||
| 7 | Scale and an organism-centric focus for studying interspecific interactions in landscapes | 52 | ||||
| RALPH MAC NALLY | ||||||
| 8 | The role of experiments in landscape ecology | 70 | ||||
| ROLF A. IMS | ||||||
| 9 | Spatial modeling in landscape ecology | 79 | ||||
| JANA VERBOOM AND WIEGER WAMELINK | ||||||
| 10 | The promise of landscape modeling: successes, failures, and evolution | 90 | ||||
| DAVID J. MLADENOFF | ||||||
| PART III Landscape patterns | 101 | |||||
| 11 | Landscape pattern: context and process | 103 | ||||
| ROY HAINES-YOUNG | ||||||
| 12 | The gradient concept of landscape structure | 112 | ||||
| KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND SAMUEL A. CUSHMAN | ||||||
| 13 | Perspectives on the use of land-cover data for ecological investigations | 120 | ||||
| THOMAS R. LOVELAND, ALISA L. GALLANT, AND JAMES E. VOGELMANN | ||||||
| PART IV Landscape dynamics on multiple scales | 129 | |||||
| 14 | Landscape sensitivity and timescales of landscape change | 131 | ||||
| MICHAEL F. THOMAS | ||||||
| 15 | The time dimension in landscape ecology: cultural soils and spatial pattern in early landscapes | 152 | ||||
| DONALD A. DAVIDSON AND IAN A. SIMPSON | ||||||
| 16 | The legacy of landscape history: the role of paleoecological analysis | 159 | ||||
| HAZEL R. DELCOURT AND PAUL A. DELCOURT | ||||||
| 17 | Landscape ecology and global change | 167 | ||||
| RONALD P. NEILSON | ||||||
| PART V Applications of landscape ecology | 179 | |||||
| 18 | Landscape ecology as the broker between information supply and management application | 181 | ||||
| FRANS KLIJN | ||||||
| 19 | Farmlands for farming and nature | 193 | ||||
| KATHRYN FREEMARK | ||||||
| 20 | Landscape ecology and forest management | 201 | ||||
| THOMAS R. CROW | ||||||
| 21 | Landscape ecology and wildlife management | 208 | ||||
| JØRUND ROLSTAD | ||||||
| 22 | Restoration ecology and landscape ecology | 217 | ||||
| RICHARD J. HOBBS | ||||||
| 23 | Conservation planning at the landscape scale | 230 | ||||
| CHRIS MARGULES | ||||||
| 24 | Landscape conservation: a new paradigm for the conservation of biodiversity | 238 | ||||
| KIMBERLY A. WITH | ||||||
| 25 | The “why?” and the “so what?” of riverine landscapes | 248 | ||||
| HENRI DÉCAMPS | ||||||
| PART VI Cultural perspectives and landscape planning | 257 | |||||
| 26 | The nature of lowland rivers: a search for river identity | 259 | ||||
| BAS PEDROLI | ||||||
| 27 | Using cultural knowledge to make new landscape patterns | 274 | ||||
| JOAN IVERSON NASSAUER | ||||||
| 28 | The critical divide: landscape policy and its implementation | 281 | ||||
| NANCY POLLOCK-ELLWAND | ||||||
| 29 | Landscape ecology: principles of cognition and the political–economic dimension | 296 | ||||
| JÁN OT’AHEL’ | ||||||
| 30 | Integration of landscape ecology and landscape architecture: an evolutionary and reciprocal process | 307 | ||||
| JACK AHERN | ||||||
| 31 | Landscape ecology in land-use planning | 316 | ||||
| ROB H. G. JONGMAN | ||||||
| PART VII Retrospect and prospect | 329 | |||||
| 32 | The land unit as a black box: a Pandora’s box? | 331 | ||||
| I. S. ZONNEVELD | ||||||
| 33 | Toward a transdisciplinary landscape science | 346 | ||||
| ZEV NAVEH | ||||||
| 34 | Toward fostering recognition of landscape ecology | 355 | ||||
| MICHAEL R. MOSS | ||||||
| 35 | Toward a unified landscape ecology | 365 | ||||
| JOHN A. WIENS | ||||||
Index | 374 | |||||
| The color plates follow page 128 | ||||||