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<p>Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.<p>This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.<p>Chapters cover: <ul> <li>patches - size, number, and location <li>edges and boundaries <li>corridors and connectivity <li>mosaics <li>summaries of case studies from around the world </ul> Tags: landscape ecology principles landscape architecture and land use planning |
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