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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