Ecotones: The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments - Rilegato

Holland, Majorie M.; Risser, Paul G.

 
9780412030918: Ecotones: The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments

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Eight papers from an August 1989 symposium in Toronto recognize the importance of boundaries to individual organisms and species, to the two (or more) ecologies that touch, and as sensitive indicators of overall changes that hetergeneous landscapes are not observably reacting to. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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1. Introduction: The role of landscape boundaries in the management and restoration of changing environments.- 2. Fundamental ecological characteristics of landscape boundaries.- 3. Climatic constraints and issues of scale controlling regional biomes.- 4. Potential responses of landscape boundaries to global environmental change.- 5. Simulation of the scale-dependent effects of landscape boundaries on species persistence and dispersal.- 6. Human impact on the functioning of landscape boundaries.- 7. Restoration of human impacted land-water ecotones.- 8. Summary: Landscape boundaries in the management and restoration of changing environments.

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9781461596882: Ecotones: The Role Of Landscape Boundaries In The Management And Restoration Of Changing Environments

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ISBN 10:  1461596882 ISBN 13:  9781461596882
Casa editrice: Springer, 2013
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