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Principles of Ecological Landscape Design

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Travis Beck
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  • With the increased focus on landscapes in rating systems (LEED Sustainable Sites), there is great demand for a guide that takes ecological concepts and explains to a design audience how the concepts can be applied
  • Visually appealing and thoughtfully presented, the author presents important ecological concepts followed immediately by a design application of the concept
  • The author is a Landscape and Gardens Project Manager with the New York Botanical Garden who has experience in both ecology and design

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Right Plant, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 1-5

  3. Right Plant, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 7-31

  4. Beyond Massing: Working with Plant Populations and Communities

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 33-63

  5. The Struggle for Coexistence: On Competition and Assembling Tight Communities

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 65-88

  6. Complex Creations: Designing and Managing Ecosystems

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 89-106

  7. Maintaining the World as We Know It: Biodiversity for High-Functioning Landscapes

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 107-123

  8. The Stuff of Life: Promoting Living Soils and Healthy Waters

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 125-152

  9. The Birds and the Bees: Integrating Other Organisms

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 153-178

  10. When Lightning Strikes: Counting on Disturbance, Planning for Succession

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 179-208

  11. An Ever-Shifting Mosaic: Landscape Ecology Applied

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 209-233

  12. No Time Like the Present: Creating Landscapes for an Era of Global Change

    • Travis Beck
    Pages 235-259

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 261-280
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About this book

Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice.

This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape.

For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.

About the author

Travis Beck is Landscape and Gardens Project Manager with the New York Botanical Garden. He is a registered landscape architect and LEED Accredited Professional with a Master’s degree in horticulture from The Ohio State University. The author's website is http://ecologyanddesign.com/.

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