Overview
- No comparable book exists. Contributing authors provide overviews of specific disciplines, while several prominent scientists write synthesis chapters which help the reader draw connections between the fields of landscape ecology and ecosystem ecology
- This synthesis unites ecosystem ecology’s knowledge of system function with landscape ecology’s knowledge of spatial structure
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Challenges and Conceptual Approaches
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Perspectives from Different Disciplines
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Illustrations of Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Function
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"Ecosystems Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes is an edited volume from the 10th Cary conference held in 2003. … This volume attempts to cover a lot of topics and will be particularly relevant to graduate students of Landscape Ecology trying to grasp some of the landscape to regional organizing frameworks that may provide fruitful avenues of research. It may also be helpful to researchers and managers … ." (K. B. Pierce Jr., Landscape Ecology, Vol. 22, 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes
Editors: Gary M. Lovett, Monica G. Turner, Clive G. Jones, Kathleen C. Weathers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b104357
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24089-3Published: 15 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24090-9Published: 15 December 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-24091-6Published: 21 December 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 489
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ecology, Applied Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Landscape Ecology, Terrestial Ecology