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Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.

This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.

Chapters cover:

• patches - size, number, and location
• edges and boundaries
• corridors and connectivity
• mosaics
• summaries of case studies from around the world

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Good refresher or introduction
Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles. ... Read more

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This volume describes the regulatory mechanisms which operate at the level of gene expression. The authors primarily discuss bacterial systems but some consideration is also given to lower eukaryotes. The early chapters of the book deal with regulation of gene expression in the context of cellular physiology. Subsequent chapters deal with the major new developments in our understanding of the molecular basis of the control of gene expression, namely: promoter/operator structure; DNA-protein interaction; control of mRNA turnover; positive regulation of gene expression; antisense RNA; DNA supercoiling; and transcription termination. The final two chapters consider specific problems in gene expression in Streptomycetes and in Dictyostelium. ... Read more

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Landscape ecology is a relatively new area of study, which aims to understand the pattern of interaction of biological and cultural communities within a landscape. This book brings together leading figures from the field to provide an up-to-date survey of recent advances, identify key research problems and suggest a future direction for development and expansion of knowledge. Providing in-depth reviews of the principles and methods for understanding landscape patterns and changes, the book illustrates concepts with examples of innovative applications from different parts of the world. Forming a current 'state-of-the-science' for the science of landscape ecology, this book forms an essential reference for graduate students, academics, professionals and practitioners in ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, and landscape planning and design. ... Read more

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This textbook covers Plant Ecology from the molecular to the global level. It covers the following areas in unprecedented breadth and depth:

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Offers the best general summary of the field, with a view toward fostering common disciplinary goals. Allen and Hoekstra begin with hierarchy theory as a basic premise and explain that the conventional 'levels' (ecosystems, landscapes, communities, populations, organisms) are not levels in themselves but criteria for observation.

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Remarkable approach to reconcile a pluralistic science under
The challenging idea to find a common point from where to unify a science as pluralistic in style, method, theory and subject as ecology, is taken up by the authors in a strikingly consistent way. The introduction of thenotion of scale as a framework to re-order a vast amount of existingtheories renders many new and provoking aspects to the scientists view onhis or her own subject. Nevertheless, the authors never directly addressimplicit philosophical models of construction and re-construction theyapply and hence fail to see there own work in a broader horizont. Instead,a certain reluctance to get to close to "esoteric argumentation"keeps them from any more theoretical justification that I charge asobligatory when a notion as strong as >scale< is introduced newly ata point as central and crucial as in this book. Focusing on >scaleRead more

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This digital document is an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics on September 22, 1998. The length of the article is 3636 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The book 'Dune,' by Frank Herbert examined a number of ecological concerns in various contexts. It analyzed the association between organisms and their environment, as well as social, political, economic and language ecologies. Herbert utilized general semantics to support a theme on power, a notion of consciousness and a structure for human thought and behavior. He also emphasized the power of language in promoting human awareness.

Citation Details
Title: Semantics, general semantics, and ecology in Frank Herbert's 'Dune.'
Author: Ronny W. Parkerson
Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: International Society for General Semantics
Volume: v55Issue: n3Page: p317(12)

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