Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology
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Critical revision of landscape ecology discipline
Description of the major paradigmatic contributions
Balanced presentation of the different schools of the ecological thought
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Almo Farina is honorary professor of ecology at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Urbino University and president of the International Society of ecoacoustics.
His interest is to study the organization of landscapes and how organisms perceive the surrounding complexity. Recently AF has incorporated the principles of biosemiotic into the ecological domain developing the eco-field hypothesis and elaborated the General Theory of Resources. During the last ten years, he has worked on the fundaments of ecoacoustics. He published more than 290 reports, articles and books on zoology, eco-ethology, bird community ecology, landscape ecology, landscape changes, rural landscape modification, eco-semiotics, code biology, and ecoacoustics.
Content
2 Theories and models incorporated in the landscape ecology framework3 Scaling patterns and processes across landscapes
4 Emerging processes in the landscape5 Emerging patterns in the landscape6 Principles of landscape dynamics7 Principles for landscape conservation, management and design8 Principles of soundscape ecology9 Landscape economics and ecosystem services10 Social dimension of the landscape11 Sustainable landscapes12 Climate changes across landscapes13 Methods in landscape ecology 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Metrics in landscape ecology 13.3 The fractal geometry approach 13.4 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 13.5 Remote sensing in landscape ecology 13.6 Global Positioning Systems (GPS) 13.7 Spatially Explicit Population Models (SEPM) to describe population patterns in a landscape