Beck, Travis.

Principles of ecological landscape design / Travis Beck. - London; Washington, DC : Island Press, c2013. - xiv, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Right plan, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection

2. Beyond Massing: Working with plant populations and Communities

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

4. Complex Creations: Designing and Managing Ecosystems

5. Maintaining the World as we Know: Biodiversity for High Functioning Landscapes

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

7. The Birds and the Bees: Integrating other Organisms

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

9. An Ever-Shifting Mosaic: Landscape Ecology Applied

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




Includes bibliographical references p. 261-272 and index p. 273-280

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Ecological landscape design.
Ecosystem health.

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