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ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS
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it is | Principles
| Difference | Approaches
| People | Holistic
Background to landscape ecology covers some of the distinctions between ecology and landscape ecology as well as how the study of landscape ecology has developed. This section answers the following six questions:
Where
did landscape ecology come from?
What
is landscape ecology?
What
are the main principles of landscape ecology?
What
makes LANDSCAPE ecology different?
What
are the main approaches of landscape ecology?
Where
do landscape ecologists come from?
The field of landscape ecology focuses on five major factors
These factors will be addressed in more detail through the topics in this theme.
More?
You might like to check out the following web article for an overview of 'What is landscape ecology?' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_ecology
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