Overview
- Provides deep insight into the geosystem concept by viewing landscape as a 3D hierarchically organized heterogeneous entity where pattern is shaped by topography and substrate that determine the distribution of matter and energy flows
- Presents a multi-pattern view of landscape based not on visually detected patches only, but on several mutually additional approaches such as relief and substrate genesis, unilateral flows of dissolved matter, solid matter or surface water
- Describes specific methodologies adapted for studying pattern-process relationship at each level with particular focus on interactions between abiotic environment, soils and plant cover in both radial and lateral aspects
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 26)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory of Landscape Pattern and Hierarchy
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How Patterns Indicate Actual Processes
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How Patterns Control Actual Processes
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How Patterns Indicate Genesis and Influence Future Evolution Trends
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About this book
This book presents the polycentric and multiscale view of landscape which has been developed in Russia within a framework of physical geography since the early twentieth century. The authors develop the ideas of hierarchical organization of a landscape and strong relationships between abiotic and biotic components with equal attention to both vertical fluxes and lateral transfer. Three-dimensional representation of landscape involves strong emphasis on abiotic drivers of pattern development including relief, geological structures and runoff.
The objective of this book is to demonstrate the multiplicity of models and multiscale approach to description and explanation of landscape pattern, functioning, dynamics, and evolution. The contributions deal with various hierarchical levels ranging from within-unit interior variability to between-units interaction at landscape level, as well as regional and supra-regional zonal patterns.
Divided into 8 clear parts, the 28 chapters treat spatial pattern in one of the following aspects:
- indicator of actual matter and energy flows
- control over actual processes including disturbance expansion as well as determinant of future development
- indicator of genesis and prerequisite for future trends
- driver for short-term dynamics of processes
- response to climatic and anthropogenic influences
- factor of settlement network and land use adaptation at various historical epochs
- framework for actual land use spatial arrangement.
This contributed volume is written for researchers and students in the field of landscape ecology, physical geography, environmental impact assessment, and ecologicalplanning.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kirill Dyakonov is Professor of the Faculty of Geography, Head of Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science in Lomonosov Moscow State University, Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of Presidium of Russian Feographia Society. He performs research in theory of physical geography, landscape dynamics and evolution, landscape geophysics, dendrochronology, ecological examination and environmental impact assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape Patterns in a Range of Spatio-Temporal Scales
Editors: Alexander V. Khoroshev, Kirill N. Dyakonov
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31185-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31184-1Published: 24 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31187-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31185-8Published: 23 March 2020
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 439
Number of Illustrations: 158 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Landscape Ecology, Biogeosciences, Environmental Geography, Geoecology/Natural Processes