Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions

by EdwardO.Wilson (Foreword), RichardT.T.Forman (Author)

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1995
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Animals, plants, water, wind, materials and people flow at different rates, according to spatial patterns common to almost all landscapes and regions. This up-to-date synthesis explores the ecology of heterogeneous land areas, where natural processes and human activities spatially interact, to produce an ever changing mosaic. The subject has great relevance to today's society, and this book reflects the breadth of its importance; there are many ideas and applications for planning, conservation, design, management, sustainability and policy. Spatial solutions are provided for society's land-use objectives. An appealing book, with a highly-readable text on this major emerging field. Students and professionals alike will be drawn by the attractive and informative illustrations, the conceptual synthesis, the wide international perspective and the range of topics and research covered.

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Animals, plants, water, wind, materials and people flow at different rates, according to spatial patterns common to almost all landscapes and regions. This up-to-date synthesis explores the ecology of heterogeneous land areas, where natural processes and human activities spatially interact, to produce an ever changing mosaic. The subject has great relevance to today's society, and this book reflects the breadth of its importance; there are many ideas and applications for planning, conservation, design, management, sustainability and policy. Spatial solutions are provided for society's land-use objectives. An appealing book, with a highly-readable text on this major emerging field. Students and professionals alike will be drawn by the attractive and informative illustrations, the conceptual synthesis, the wide international perspective and the range of topics and research covered.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09 Nov 1995
ISBN 10: 0521479800
ISBN 13: 9780521479806
Book Overview: An analysis and synthesis of the ecology of heterogeneous land areas.

Media Reviews

' ... well-produced, with plenty of plates and specially drawn diagrams to illustrate specific points in the text ... covers a wide range of material drawn from a number of different disciplines ... particularly valuable reading for those involved with planning, especially at the broad scale.' Pam Berry, Progress in Physical Geography
'The book is full of ideas, principles and applications and is presented in a very readable and enjoyable way, with lively pictures and diagrams throughout.' Elizabeth A. Gardiner, Environmental Education and Information
' ... offers a 'state of the art' discussion of the ecological theory.' Tree
'... a welcome addition to the therapeutic understanding of two of society's major contemporary problems.' Ivor Felstein, Doctor
' ... a good introduction as well as a scientific review of the new disciplines of landscape ecology ... an appealing and highly readable text on this major emerging field. I recommend it for both the experienced researcher and the student who is being exposed for the first time to concepts related to landscape ecology.' Dazhong Wen, Journal of Environmental Quality
'Its sheer scope is bound to make it a classic text.' TEG News
' ... provides a good introduction as well as a scientific review of the new disciplines of landscape ecology. This is an appealing and highly readable text.' Dazhong Wen, Environmental Quality
An excellent resource for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, resource managers, and scientists in all fields of landscape ecology, biological conservation, and applied ecology. Choice
Richard T.T. Forman's Land Mosaics has made a significant contribution to addressing this issue and documenting how the ecological view can and has been put into practice. This work is a comprehensive review and synthesis of landscape ecology. Its goal is to provide a framework for humans to be able to critically understand and use at an appropriate scale important ecological relationships with the land around them....Land Mosaics provides the most scholarly review of holling and Goldberg's new priniciple to date. It is an exceptional piece which scholars from a avriety of disciplines will find useful....Dr. Forman does exceptionally well in dveloping the foundations of regional ecology... William W. Budd, Landscape and Urban Planning
Land Mosaics is valuable for the research community in that it synthesizes work from many fields and from many geographic locations and ties them together with key concepts and ecological principles....The book is also valuable for the community of land managers/planners in that there is much sound advice for creating optimal spatial configurations that have a higher probability of being sustainable. I would especially recommend the last section of the book--the last three chapters on changing mosaics--as required reading for all involved with planning, management, or research on large land areas. Forest Science
The discussion of animal flow configurations is especially insightful....Forman explains convincingly that we must understand such phenomena...if we are to plan in ways that will protect various species. Landscape
...provides a good introduction as well as a scientific review of the new disciplines of landscape ecology. This is an appealing and highly readable text on this major emerging field. Journal of Environmental Quality