Landscape ecology

Author: Guo Jinping, Zhou Zhiqi (editors)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Landscape Ecology," a national-level planning textbook for the "11th Five-Year Plan" in general higher education, can serve as a teaching material for related majors in universities such as ecology, geography, forestry, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, soil and water conservation, environmental science, resource and land development, etc. It can also be used as a reference book for management personnel, engineering technicians, researchers, and other professionals concerned with ecological and environmental construction. Landscape ecology is a macroscopic ecological discipline that studies landscapes, focusing on their structure, function, changes, as well as scientific planning and effective management. The core content of landscape ecology includes four major aspects: landscape structure, landscape function, landscape dynamics, and landscape planning and management. Based on these four core components and incorporating the latest research findings, this textbook constructs a comprehensive curriculum system, aiming to combine systematicity and practicality. It is both scientifically rigorous and accessible, providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the core ideas, conceptual frameworks, theoretical systems, methodological characteristics, and application areas of landscape ecology. Particularly, it dedicates a chapter to quantitative research methods in landscape ecology, covering fundamental data types in landscape ecological studies, the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology for spatial data collection, processing, and analysis, the analysis and application of landscape spatial pattern indicators, as well as methods and techniques for establishing spatial databases and spatial analysis models. This textbook can serve as a teaching material for related majors in universities such as ecology, geography, forestry, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, soil and water conservation, environmental science, resource and land development, etc. It can also be used as a reference book for management personnel, engineering technicians, researchers, and other professionals concerned with ecological and environmental construction.