(Ebook) Essentials of Landscape Ecology by Kimberly A. With ISBN 9780198838388, 0198838387

(Ebook) Essentials of Landscape Ecology by Kimberly A. With ISBN 9780198838388, 0198838387

Human activity during the Anthropocene has transformed landscapes worldwide on a scale that rivals or exceeds even the largest of natural forces. Landscape ecology has emerged as a science to investigate the interactions between natural and anthropogenic landscapes and ecological processesacross a wide range of scales and systems: from the effects of habitat or resource distributions on the individual movements, gene flow, and population dynamics of plants and animals; to the human alteration of landscapes affecting the structure of biological communities and the functioning ofentire ecosystems; to the sustainable management of natural resources and the ecosystem goods and services upon which society depends. This novel and comprehensive text presents the principles, theory, methods, and applications of landscape ecology in an engaging and accessible format that issupplemented by numerous examples and case studies from a variety of systems, including freshwater and marine "scapes".