Landscape Ecology and Resource Management
Linking Theory with Practice
Landscape Ecology and Resource Management bridges the gap between the science of landscape ecology and on-the-ground land and resource management, relating the theory and empirical research within landscape ecology to the practical needs of resource managers. It offers both a conceptual foundation of applicable and operational theory and case-study examples that address ways in which political, economic, and social factors influence the use of landscape ecology and other data-based science around the world.
Contributors focus on links between theory and practice, between small-scale and large-scale, and between humans and nature. Specific linkages examined include:
- landscape patterns and biological reality
- top-down effects and organisms
- the indicator species concept and conservation efforts
- the concept of fitness landscapes and the behavior and distribution of animals
- body mass patterns and wildlife conservation
Chapters feature examples of interactions between people and landscapes in boreal, central, and Mediterranean Europe; northern Australia; and Eastern Africa; along with case studies from central Europe, North America, and South America that show how theory and application can be linked in a variety of situations with varying management constraints.
Landscape Ecology and Resource Management is the first book of its kind to focus on the linkages between the theory of landscape ecology and the practice of resource management, and will play an important role both in advancing landscape ecology as a science and in incorporating its ideas into management efforts.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Conceptual and Quantitative Linkages
1. Linking Landscape Patterns to Biological Reality
John A. Bissonette
2. Linkages between Landscape Theory and Population Dynamics:
A Review of the Empirical Evidence
Therese M. Donovan and Allan M. Strong
3. The Rest of the Story: Linking Top-Down Effects to Organisms
James G. Sanderson and Larry D. Harris
4. The Problem with Linking Scales in the Use of Indicator Species
in Conservation Biology
Ilse Storch and John A. Bissonette
5. Linking Fitness Landscapes with the Behavior and Distribution
of Animals
Michael S. Mitchell and Roger A. Powell
6. Implications of Body Mass Patterns: Linking Ecological Structure
and Process to Wildlife Conservation and Management
Jan P. Sendzimir, Craig R. Allen, Lance Gunderson, and Craig Stow
7. Modeling Multiple Ecological Scales to Link Landscape Theory
to Wildlife Conservation
Thomas C. Edwards, Jr., Gretchen G. Moisen, Tracey S. Frescino, and
Joshua J. Lawler
Part 2. Linking People, Land Use, and Landscape Values
8. Human Stewardship in Ecological Mosaics: Linking People to
Landscape Dynamics
Almo Farina
9. Reconciling the Linkages of Land Management with Natural
Disturbance Regimes to Maintain Forest Biodiversity in Europe
Per Angelstam
10. Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Management, and Conservation in
Northern Austrailia: Linking Policy, Practice, and Capability in
Regional Planning
Peter J. Whitehead, John C. Z. Woinarski, Donald Franklin, and
Owen Price
11. Habitat Models to Link Situation Evaluation and Planning
Support in Agricultural Landscapes
Alfred Schultz, Reinhard Klenke, Gerd Lutze, Marion Voss,
Ralf Wieland, and Bettina Wilkening
12. A Park In Not an Island: Linking Different Wildlife Management
Strategies in the Area of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
Christiane Averbeck
Part 3. Linking Theory and Application: Case Studies
13. Linking a Multiscale Habitat Concept to Species Conservation
Ilse Storch
14. Landscape History: Linking Conservation Approaches for
Large Mammals
David S. Maehr, John J. Cox, and Jeffery L. Larkin
15. Giant Otters in the Peruvian Rainforest: Linking Protected Area
Conditions to Species Needs
Christof Schenck, Jessica Groenedijk, Frank Hajek, Elke Staib,
and Karin Frank
16. Linking Landscape Management with the Consevation of
Grassland Birds in Wisconsin
David W. Sample, Christine A. Ribic, and Rosalind B. Renfew
17. 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
Conclusion
About the Contributors
Index
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