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History of Landscape Ecology in the United States

This book analyzes the emergence of landscape ecology, its current status as a new integrative science, and how distinguished scholars in the field of landscape ecology view the future regarding new challenges and career opportunities. Over the past thirty years, landscape ecology has utilized devel...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barrett, Gary W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Barrett, Terry L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wu, Jianguo. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Landscape ecology.
Landscape Ecology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2275-8
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Thirty Years of the United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USIALE): The Evolution of Its Organization and Science
  • 2. Launching Landscape Ecology in America and Learning from Europe
  • 3. Right Time at the Right Place in History
  • 4. Twenty-five Years of United States Landscape Ecology: Looking Back and Forging Ahead
  • 5. History and Evolution of the Journal
  • 6. Historical Perspectives from Former Presidents of USIALE
  • 7. Significant Theories, Principles, and Approaches that Emerged within Landscape Ecology during the Previous Thirty Years
  • 8. Transforming Fields of Study in Landscape Ecology
  • 9. A Tale of Two Continents: The Growth and Maturation of Landscape Ecology in North America and Australia
  • 10. Landscape Ecology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 11. A Future for USIALE
  • Index.

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