Landscape ecology and resource management
Subtitle: linking theory with practice
By: edited by John A. Bissonette and Ilse Storch.
Contributors: Bissonette, John A.; Storch, Ilse.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Landscape ecology; Conservation of natural resources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. -- PART 1:; title: CONCEPTUAL AND QUANTITATIVE LINKAGES. --; title: Linking landscape patterns to biological reality -- John A. Bissonette; title: Linkages between landscape theory and population dynamics: a review of the empirical evidence -- Therese M. Donovan and Allan M. Strong; title: The rest of the story: linking top-down effects to organisms -- James G. Sanderson and Larry D. Harris; title: The problem with linking scales in the use of indicator species in conservation biology -- Ilse Storch and John A. bissonette; title: Linking fitness landscapes with the behavior and distribution of animals -- Michael S. Mitchell and Roger A. Powell; title: Implications of body mass patterns: linking ecological structure and process to wildlife conservation and management -- Thomas, C. Edwards, Jr., [et. al.]. -- PART 2:; title: LINKING PEOPLE, LAND USE, AND LANDSCAPE VALUES. --; title: Human stewardship in ecological mosaics: linking people to landscape dynamics -- Almo Farina; title: Reconciling the linkages of land management with natural disturbance regimes to maintain forest biodiversity in Europe -- Per Angelstam; title: Landscape ecology, wildlife management, and conservation in Northern Australia: linking policy, practice, and capability in regional planning -- Peter J. Whithead, [et. al.]; title: Habitat models to link situation evaluation and planning support in agricultural landscapes -- Alfred Schultz [et al.]; title: A park is not an island: linking different wildlife management strategies in the area of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda -- Christiane Averbeck. -- PART 3:; title: LINKING THEORY AND APPLICATION: CASE STUDIES. --; title: Linking a multiscale habitat concept to species conservation -- Ilse Storch; title: Landscape history: linking conservation approaches for large mammals -- David S. Maehr, John J. Cox, and Jeffrey L. Larkin; title: Giant otters in the Peruvian rainforest: linking protected area conditions to species needs -- Christof Schenck [et al.]; title: Linking landscape management with the conservation of grassland birds in Wisconsin -- David W. Sample, Christine Ribic, and Rosalind B. Renfrew; title: Foraging by herbivores: linking the biochemical diversity of plants to herbivore culture and landscape diversity-- Frederick D. Provenza, Juan J. Villalba, and John P. Bryant.