Landscape Bionomics Biological-Integrated Landscape Ecology

• Main Author: Ingegnoli, Vittorio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape ecology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Landscape Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

"Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in sepa...

Table of Contents:

• Landscape bionomics and the theory of living systems
• Landscape structure
• Landscape functions (physiology)
• Transformation and pathology of landscapes
• Landscape analysis of vegetation
• Landscape analysis of animal and human populations
• General and bionomic analysis of the landscape
• Historical evaluation of the landscape
• Diagnostic evaluation of the landscape
• Landscape therapy and territorial planning
• Therapy and design of the landscape
• Applications in alpine landscapes
• Applications in plain landscapes
• Comparison between two rural-suburban landscapes from Brussels and Milan
• Landscape environmental ethic
• Glossary.