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Principles and methods of landscape ecology are intensivel used to model and to manage disturbed landscapes and menaced pristine areas ad well. Students and profesionals can find a new version of principles and methods in landscape ecology firsty published in 1998 by Chapman & Hall (London). Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi disciplinary science and principles and methods in landscape ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular new paradigms and theories like percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source sink models, have been integrated, in this last edition, with the recent theories on bio complety, information and cognitive sciences. Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geometry models[...]

Principles and methods of landscape ecology are intensivel used to model and to manage disturbed landscapes and menaced pristine areas ad well. Students and profesionals can find a new version of principles and methods in landscape ecology firsty published in 1998 by Chapman & Hall (London). Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi disciplinary science and principles and methods in landscape ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular new paradigms and theories like percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source sink models, have been integrated, in this last edition, with the recent theories on bio complety, information and cognitive sciences. Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geometry models and remote sensing in order to create confidence toward techniques and approaches that require a high experience and long time dedication. Principles and methods in landscape ecology is a textbook useful to present the landscape in a multi-version perspective for undergraduate and graduate students of biology, ecology, geography, forestry, agronomy, landscape architecture and planning. Sociology, economics, history, archaeology, anthropology, ecological psychology are some sciences that can benefit of the holistic vision offered by this texbook. A relevant goal of this second edition is to increase confidence in the new generations of students and practitioners for considering the ecological systems as the result of the integration between ecosystems (non spatial) and landscape (spatial) patterns and processes.