PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN /
Beck, Travis.
PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN / Travis Beck. - xiv, 280 pages. : illustration., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.
Introduction -- Right plant, right place: biogeography and plant selection -- Beyond massing: working with plant populations and communities -- The struggle for coexistence: on competition and assembling tight communities -- Complex creations: designing and managing ecosystems -- Maintaining the world as we know it: biodiversity for high-functioning landscapes -- The stuff of life: promoting living soils and healthy waters -- The birds and the bees: integrating other organisms -- When lightning strikes: counting on disturbance, planning for succession -- An ever shifting mosaic: landscape ecology applied -- No time like the present: creating landscapes for an era of global change.
9781597267021 1597267023
2012022172
Ecological landscape design.
Ecosystem health.
QH541.15.L35 / B43 2013
577 / TRA
PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN / Travis Beck. - xiv, 280 pages. : illustration., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.
Introduction -- Right plant, right place: biogeography and plant selection -- Beyond massing: working with plant populations and communities -- The struggle for coexistence: on competition and assembling tight communities -- Complex creations: designing and managing ecosystems -- Maintaining the world as we know it: biodiversity for high-functioning landscapes -- The stuff of life: promoting living soils and healthy waters -- The birds and the bees: integrating other organisms -- When lightning strikes: counting on disturbance, planning for succession -- An ever shifting mosaic: landscape ecology applied -- No time like the present: creating landscapes for an era of global change.
9781597267021 1597267023
2012022172
Ecological landscape design.
Ecosystem health.
QH541.15.L35 / B43 2013
577 / TRA