Consequences of land use change / editors, Ü. Mander & R.H.G. Jongman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mander, Ü. (Ülo)

Jongman, R. H.

Series:

Advances in ecological sciences ; v. 5.

Advances in ecological sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Planning.

Land use.

Land use--Economic aspects.

Land use--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Southampton, UK : WIT Press ; Billerica, MA : Computational Mechanics, [2000]

Summary:

Representing an important step forward for regional and inter-regional development of integrated landscape ecological research in the field of land use changes, this volume includes discussion of many related problems. Partial Contents: MAIN CONCEPTS, METHODS AND MONITORING: Analysis of the Concept of Landscape Change; Landscape Classification, Scales and Biodiversity in Europe; A Swedish Countryside Survey for Monitoring of Landscape Features, Biodviersity and Cultural Heritage - the LIM Project. CONSEQUENCES OF LAND USE CHANGES: Persistence of Landscape Spatial Structure in Conditions of Change in Habitat, Land Use and Actual Vegetation - Vistula Valley Case Study in Central Poland; Relationships between Farming Systems and Ecological Patterns Along a Gradient of Bocage Landscapes; Multiple-Scale Landscape Ecological Analysis in a Rural Mediterranean Region.

Contents:

Section 1 Main Concepts, Methods and Monitoring

Chapter 1 Analysis of the concept of landscape change / F. Golley 3

Chapter 2 Landscape classification, scales and biodiversity in Europe / R.H.G. Jongman, R.G.H. Bunce 11

Chapter 3 A Swedish countryside survey for monitoring of landscape features, biodiversity and cultural heritage - the LIM-project / M. Ihse, G. Blom 39

Chapter 4 Human attitudes and industrial work activity as causes of industrial impact on nature: A methodological approach to integrate ecology into economic and social development / W. Ruth, E. Ruth-Balaganskaya 75

Chapter 5 Reference areas and dimensions in landscape ecology and application of evaluation functions / B.C. Meyer, R. Kronert, U. Steinhardt 119

Chapter 6 Sensitivity of landscapes to atmospheric pollution / T. Oja, A. Kull 147

Section 2 Consequences of Land Use Changes

Chapter 7 Persistence of landscape spatial structure in conditions of change in habitat, land use and actual vegetation: Vistula Valley case study in Central Poland / J. Solon 163

Chapter 8 The transformation of landscape ecological structure following the land privatisation in Hungary since 1989 / P. Csorba 185

Chapter 9 Ecological situation and land use changes in Mongolia / O. Bastian 199

Chapter 10 Relationships between farming systems and ecological patterns along a gradient of bocage landscapes / F. Burel, J. Baudry, C. Thenail, D. Le Coeur 227

Chapter 11 Sustainability and the Dartington Estate, Devon (UK): Conversion of a famous experiment in human ecology / P.E. O'Sullivan, C. Taylor, M. Jefferies, A. Jellings, T.S.C. Williams, S.P. Harding, M.M. Mackie, I.R.G. Whitehead, P. O'Neill 247

Chapter 12 Multiple-scale landscape ecological analysis in a rural Mediterranean region / P. Mairota, M. Mininni 269

Chapter 13 A conceptual model relating ecological constraints to livestock production in tropical American seasonal savannas / G. Sarmiento, M. Pinillos 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1853126500

OCLC:

45103520