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Ecotones

The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Marjorie M. Holland

    1. Public Affairs Office, Ecological Society of America, Bethesda, USA

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  2. Paul G. Risser

    1. Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

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  3. Robert J. Naiman

    1. Center for Streamside Studies, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments: Introduction

    • Marjorie M. Holland, Paul G. Risser
    Pages 1-7

  3. Fundamental Ecological Characteristics of Landscape Boundaries

    • James R. Gosz
    Pages 8-30

  4. Climatic Constraints and Issues of Scale Controlling Regional Biomes

    • Ronald P. Neilson
    Pages 31-51

  5. Potential Responses of Landscape Boundaries to Global Environmental Change

    • Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner, Robert V. O’Neill
    Pages 52-75

  6. Simulation of the Scale-Dependent Effects of Landscape Boundaries on Species Persistence and Dispersal

    • Robert H. Gardner, Monica G. Turner, Robert V. O’Neill, Sandra Lavorel
    Pages 76-89

  7. Human Impact on the Functioning of Landscape Boundaries

    • David L. Correll
    Pages 90-109

  8. Restoration of Human Impacted Land-Water Ecotones

    • James R. Sedell, Robert J. Steedman, Henry Regier, Stanley V. Gregory
    Pages 110-129

  9. Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments: A Summary

    • Robert J. Naiman, Henri Décamps
    Pages 130-137

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 138-142
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About this book

We live in a changing world; one in which there is much concern and discussion about the topics of global change, loss of biodiversity, and increasing threats to the sustainability of ecosystems. The effects these changes may have on the environment have lead governments and sCientists to make predictions as to how soon changes might occur, where, and with what impact for large and small regions of the Earth. Along with this concern for change in various regions has come the need to understand the role of boundaries between these regions and between landscape elements. Much previous ecological research has dealt with processes within relatively homogeneous landscape units or even the collective characteristics of a composite landscape. Now, however, there is an appreciation that abiotic and biotic components move across heterogeneous landscapes and that the boundaries between these units take on important control functions in this dynamic spatial system. Furthermore, landscape boundaries (or ecotones) are important not only in satisfying life-cycle needs of many organisms, but generally are characterized by high biological diversity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Public Affairs Office, Ecological Society of America, Bethesda, USA

    Marjorie M. Holland

  • Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Paul G. Risser

  • Center for Streamside Studies, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Robert J. Naiman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecotones

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments

  • Editors: Marjorie M. Holland, Paul G. Risser, Robert J. Naiman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9686-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Inc. 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-9688-2Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-9686-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 142

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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