Landscape Ecology: A Task-Oriented Perspective

Urban, Dean L.

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-01-11
  • 售價: $4,350
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 313
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031722507
  • ISBN-13: 9783031722509
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商品描述

This is methods/tools textbook that covers the fundamental tasks in research and management at the landscape scale. It brings together tools from a range of disciplines and presents them in a natural workflow that a practitioner can appreciate. Alternative texts cover a narrower range of topics and/or present the information without reference to a natural workflow. The book begins with 2 fundamental applications that introduce the scope and challenges of working at the landscape scales (sampling design and species distribution modeling). These motivate several chapters that 'digress' to cover the primary tools that ecologists use to work with multivariate and spatial data. The book then returns to applications including site prioritization, interpreting (and forecasting) landscape change, and integrated assessment. The tasks themselves follow a logical workflow of collecting and analyzing data, applying the analyses to management decisions, and interpreting the outcomes of these decisions in an integrated framework.

This book stems from two graduate-level courses in Landscape Ecology taught at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The subject has evolved over time, from a concepts-based overview of what landscape ecology is, to a more applied practicum on how one does landscape ecology. As landscape ecology has matured as a discipline, its perspectives on spatial heterogeneity and scale have begun to permeate into a wide range of other fields including conservation biology, ecosystem management, and ecological restoration. Thus, this textbook will bring students from diverse backgrounds to a common level of understanding and will prepare them with the practical knowledge for a career in conservation and ecosystem management.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這是一本涵蓋景觀規模研究與管理基本任務的方法/工具教科書。它整合了來自多個學科的工具,並以實務工作者能夠理解的自然工作流程呈現。其他替代文本則涵蓋較狹窄的主題範圍,或是未能以自然工作流程的方式呈現資訊。本書以兩個基本應用開始,介紹在景觀規模工作時的範疇與挑戰(取樣設計和物種分佈建模)。這些應用激發了幾個章節,這些章節「偏離主題」以涵蓋生態學家用來處理多變量和空間數據的主要工具。接著,本書回到應用,包括地點優先排序、解釋(和預測)景觀變化,以及綜合評估。這些任務遵循一個邏輯工作流程,從收集和分析數據開始,將分析結果應用於管理決策,並在綜合框架中解釋這些決策的結果。

本書源自於杜克大學尼可拉斯環境學院的兩門研究生課程,主題為景觀生態學。隨著時間的推移,這一主題已從對景觀生態學是什麼的概念性概述,演變為如何進行景觀生態學的更應用的實習。隨著景觀生態學作為一門學科的成熟,其對空間異質性和尺度的觀點已開始滲透到包括保育生物學、生態系統管理和生態修復等多個領域。因此,這本教科書將使來自不同背景的學生達到共同的理解水平,並為他們在保育和生態系統管理的職業生涯中提供實用知識。

作者簡介

Dean Urban is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. His research focuses on devising innovative and rigorous approaches to applications of immediate practical concern. His research tools include habitat classification and mapping, site prioritization, spatial simulation, and integrated assessment. A hallmark of his work is integrated studies that extrapolate our fine-scale empirical understanding of environmental issues to the larger space and time scales of management and policy. Most of his work in landscape ecology has explored the causes and consequences of spatial pattern in forest systems. Specific interests include the implications of climate change for forest ecosystems, and the consequences of land use pattern on forest habitat connectivity and watershed function in developed landscapes. His current research focus is how land use affects the provision of ecosystem services, and in reconciling human institutions with natural systems.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Dean Urban是杜克大學尼可拉斯環境學院的景觀生態學名譽教授。他的研究專注於設計創新且嚴謹的方法,以應對當前實際關切的應用問題。他的研究工具包括棲息地分類與繪圖、地點優先排序、空間模擬和綜合評估。他工作的標誌是綜合研究,將我們對環境問題的細微實證理解推廣到管理和政策的更大空間和時間尺度。他在景觀生態學的研究大多探討森林系統中空間模式的原因和後果。具體興趣包括氣候變遷對森林生態系統的影響,以及土地使用模式對已開發景觀中森林棲息地連通性和流域功能的影響。他目前的研究重點是土地使用如何影響生態系統服務的提供,以及如何調和人類制度與自然系統。