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A Methodological Framework to Quantify Anthropogenic Effects on Landscape Patterns

Host Publication: Ecological Research Monographs

Authors: J. Bogaert, Y. Sabas S. Barima, J. Ji, H. Jiang, I. Bamba, L. Iyongo Waya Mongo, A. Mama, E. Nyssen, F. Dahdouhguebas and N. Koedam

Publisher: Springer Verlag

Publication Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 27

ISBN: 978-4-431-87798-1


Abstract:

Landscape ecology is defined as the study of ecological patterns and processes in their spatial context (Antrop 2001). Landscape ecology is motivated by a need to understand the development and dynamics of pattern in ecological phenomena, the role of disturbance in ecosystems, and characteristic spatial and temporal scales of ecological events (Urban et al. 1987). Many other definitions of landscape ecology can be found in the literature (Turner et al. 2001 Wu and Hobbs 2007). The same observation can be made for the landscape concept (Farina 2000a). Application of the principles of hierarchy theory (Allen and Starr 1982 Urban et al. 1987 Forman 1995 Burel and Baudry 2003 Bogaert and Mahamane 2005) to the biosphere leads to a definition of a landscape as the level of spatial or biological organization situated between the ecosystem level (lower level of organization than the landscape) and the regional level (higher level of organization than the landscape). A landscape can consequently be defined as a cluster of interacting and contiguous ecosystems several contiguous landscapes will constitute a region.

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