| Description |
xxiii, 501 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Introducing seascape ecology -- Mapping and quantifying seascape patterns -- Pelagic seascapes -- Scale and scaling in seascape ecology -- Part II Linking Seascape Patterns and Ecological Processes -- Ecological consequences of seagrass and salt-marsh seascape patterning on marine fauna -- Seascape patch dynamics -- Animal movements through the seascape: integrating movement ecology with seascape ecology -- Using individual-based models to explore seascape ecology -- Part III Seascape Connectivity -- Connectivity in coastal seascapes -- Networks for quantifying and analysing seascape connectivity -- Linking landscape and seascape conditions: science, tools and management -- Part IV People and Seascapes -- Advancing a holistic systems approach in applied seascape ecology -- Human ecology at sea: modelling and mapping human-seascape interactions -- Applying landscape ecology for the design and evaluation of marine protected area networks -- Seascape economics: valuing ecosystem services across the seascape -- Part V Epilogue -- Landscape ecologists' perspectives on seascape ecology |
| Summary |
Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance for future research priorities. The first book devoted exclusively to this rapidly emerging and increasingly important discipline, it is comprised of contributions from researchers at the forefront of seascape ecology working around the world. It presents the principles, concepts, methodology, and techniques informing seascape ecology and reports on the latest developments in the application of the approach to marine ecology and management. A growing number of marine scientists, geographers, and marine managers are asking questions about the marine environment that are best addressed with a landscape ecology perspective. Seascape Ecology represents the first serious effort to fill the gap in the literature on the subject. Key topics and features of interest include: The origins and history of seascape ecology and various approaches to spatial patterning in the sea; The links between seascape patterns and ecological processes, with special attention paid to the roles played by seagrasses and salt marshes and animal movements through seascapes; Human influences on seascape ecology-includes models for assessing human-seascape interactions; A special epilogue in which three eminent scientists who have been instrumental in shaping the course of landscape ecology offer their insights and perspectives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Landscape ecology.
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Marine ecology.
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| Author |
Pittman, Simon, editor
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| LC no. |
2017036860 |
| ISBN |
1119084431 |
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9781119084433 |
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