Titlebook: Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice; Pattern and Process Monica G. Turner,Robert H. Gardner Textbook 2015Latest edition Springer-Verla

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Conclusions and Future Directions,as matured. Motivated by broad-scale environmental challenges and facilitated by rapid developments in computing power and technology, landscape ecology has emerged as a synthetic discipline that has generated new concepts, theory, and methods that reveal the importance of spatial pattern in ecologi

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Causes of Landscape Pattern,ance of different causes? Do similar patterns emerge from similar processes? How do landscape patterns change through time? What conditions produce gradual vs. abrupt changes in landscape patterns? Can future patterns be predicted? For how long are patterns discernible after the processes creating t

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Landscape Metrics,re. While the nuts-and-bolts of individual metrics and software programs will continue to evolve over time, there are general caveats that apply to any analysis of landscape pattern. We begin this chapter by discussing why pattern is quantified and where landscape data come from, then highlight key

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Ecosystem Processes in Heterogeneous Landscapes,mensions of ecosystem ecology may encompass bounded systems like watersheds, complex landscapes of diverse habitats, or even the biosphere itself; temporally, ecosystem science may cross scales ranging from seconds to millennia (Carpenter and Turner 1998). Ecosystem process rates vary across landsca

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Landscape Dynamics in a Rapidly Changing World,entire systems. Research related to ecosystem management (Christensen et al. 1996), sustainability science (Kates et al. 2001), and .—the benefits provided to people by nature—involves landscape ecology. Ecological effects of land and resource management are sensitive to the temporal scales and spat

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