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Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes

Collinge, Sharon K.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801891380
Publisert
2009-07-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
360

Forfatter
Collinge, Sharon K.
Foreword by
Forman Richard T. T.

Biografisk notat

Sharon K. Collinge is an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology as well as of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. She is the senior volume editor of Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics.

Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes

Collinge, Sharon K.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Collinge, Sharon K.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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This important and relevant work is well written and very extensively reference. Choice 2009 Its first-person style, relating often to the author's own experiences, is engaging and personable, and yet the book backs a scientific punch too... Its unassuming style and friendly approach belie it powerful insight and interpretation of a vast literature. -- Robert A. Davis Ecological Management and Restoration 2010 Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is a fascinating, thorough, and positive book, packed with scientific and technical content-an excellent resource for teachers and students of landscape and restoration ecology or for scientifically oriented naturalists. -- Renate Sander-Regier The Canadian Field-Naturalist 2009

Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, woodlands, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of naturally occurring environmental changes or the product of seemingly unchecked human development, fractured lands significantly impact the planet's biological diversity. In Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes, Sharon K. Collinge defines fragmentation, explains its various causes, and suggests ways that we can put our lands back together. Researchers have been studying the ecological effects of dismantling nature for decades. In this book, Collinge evaluates this body of research, expertly synthesizing all that is known about the ecology of fragmented landscapes. Expanding on the traditional coverage of this topic, Collinge also discusses disease ecology, restoration, conservation, and planning. Not since Richard T. T. Forman's classic Land Mosaics has there been a more comprehensive examination of landscape fragmentation. Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is critical reading for ecologists, conservation biologists, and students alike.
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Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is critical reading for ecologists, conservation biologists, and students alike.

Foreword, by Richard T. T. Forman
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Frameworks
3. Fragment Size and Isolation
4. Experimenting with Fragmentation
5. Fragment Context and Edge Effects
6. Animal and Plant Movement
7. Species Interactions
8. Parasites, Pathogens, and Disease Emergence
9. Modeling
10. Restoration
11. Ecological Planning
12. Some Final Thoughts
Literature Cited
Index

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Sharon Collinge has taken on a challenging topic—the dismantling and potential reassembly of natural landscapes—and done it great justice. Her book is scholarly yet accessible, a must-read for teachers, students, and practitioners of conservation biology.
—Reed F. Noss, University of Central Florida
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Sharon Collinge has taken on a challenging topic-the dismantling and potential reassembly of natural landscapes-and done it great justice. Her book is scholarly yet accessible, a must-read for teachers, students, and practitioners of conservation biology. -- Reed F. Noss, University of Central Florida The earth is increasingly an archipelago of habitat fragments in a sea of human development. What have ecologists learned about the impact of this global change? How can conservationists cope with it? Sharon Collinge's book answers these questions by intelligently synthesizing the burgeoning scientific literature on fragmentation and its effects. -- Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee Outstanding! This is the best contemporary effort to synthesize known information deriving from conceptual ecology and its appropriate application to the conservation of biodiversity at landscape levels. -- Larry D. Harris, author of The Fragmented Forest
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This important and relevant work is well written and very extensively reference. Choice 2009 Its first-person style, relating often to the author's own experiences, is engaging and personable, and yet the book backs a scientific punch too... Its unassuming style and friendly approach belie it powerful insight and interpretation of a vast literature. -- Robert A. Davis Ecological Management and Restoration 2010 Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is a fascinating, thorough, and positive book, packed with scientific and technical content-an excellent resource for teachers and students of landscape and restoration ecology or for scientifically oriented naturalists. -- Renate Sander-Regier The Canadian Field-Naturalist 2009

Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, woodlands, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of naturally occurring environmental changes or the product of seemingly unchecked human development, fractured lands significantly impact the planet's biological diversity. In Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes, Sharon K. Collinge defines fragmentation, explains its various causes, and suggests ways that we can put our lands back together. Researchers have been studying the ecological effects of dismantling nature for decades. In this book, Collinge evaluates this body of research, expertly synthesizing all that is known about the ecology of fragmented landscapes. Expanding on the traditional coverage of this topic, Collinge also discusses disease ecology, restoration, conservation, and planning. Not since Richard T. T. Forman's classic Land Mosaics has there been a more comprehensive examination of landscape fragmentation. Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is critical reading for ecologists, conservation biologists, and students alike.
Les mer
Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is critical reading for ecologists, conservation biologists, and students alike.

Foreword, by Richard T. T. Forman
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Frameworks
3. Fragment Size and Isolation
4. Experimenting with Fragmentation
5. Fragment Context and Edge Effects
6. Animal and Plant Movement
7. Species Interactions
8. Parasites, Pathogens, and Disease Emergence
9. Modeling
10. Restoration
11. Ecological Planning
12. Some Final Thoughts
Literature Cited
Index

Les mer
Sharon Collinge has taken on a challenging topic—the dismantling and potential reassembly of natural landscapes—and done it great justice. Her book is scholarly yet accessible, a must-read for teachers, students, and practitioners of conservation biology.
—Reed F. Noss, University of Central Florida
Les mer
Sharon Collinge has taken on a challenging topic-the dismantling and potential reassembly of natural landscapes-and done it great justice. Her book is scholarly yet accessible, a must-read for teachers, students, and practitioners of conservation biology. -- Reed F. Noss, University of Central Florida The earth is increasingly an archipelago of habitat fragments in a sea of human development. What have ecologists learned about the impact of this global change? How can conservationists cope with it? Sharon Collinge's book answers these questions by intelligently synthesizing the burgeoning scientific literature on fragmentation and its effects. -- Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee Outstanding! This is the best contemporary effort to synthesize known information deriving from conceptual ecology and its appropriate application to the conservation of biodiversity at landscape levels. -- Larry D. Harris, author of The Fragmented Forest
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801891380
Publisert
2009-07-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
360

Forfatter
Collinge, Sharon K.
Foreword by
Forman Richard T. T.

Biografisk notat

Sharon K. Collinge is an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology as well as of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. She is the senior volume editor of Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics.

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