Principles of Ecological Landscape Design /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.