Principles of Ecological Landscape Design - Beck, Travis; SpringerLink (Online service) (Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013)
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Right Plant, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection -- 2. Beyond Massing: Working with Plant Populations and Communities -- 3. The Struggle for Coexistence: On Competition and Assembling Tight Communities -- 4. Complex Creations: Designing and Managing Ecosystems -- 5. Maintaining the World as We Know It: Biodiversity for High-Functioning Landscapes -- 6. The Stuff of Life: Promoting Living Soils and Healthy Waters -- 7. The Birds and the Bees: Integrating Other Organisms -- 8. When Lightning Strikes: Counting on Disturbance, Planning for Succession -- 9. An Ever-Shifting Mosaic: Landscape Ecology Applied -- 10. No Time Like the Present: Creating Landscapes for an Era of Global Change -- Bibliography -- Index.
Keywords: Environment; Landscape architecture; Urban planning; City planning; Applied ecology; Landscape ecology; Environment, general; Landscape Architecture; Urbanism; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Applied Ecology; Landscape Ecology