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landscape ecology
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science of relationships between ecological processes in the environmental landscape and particular ecosystems
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- Subclass of
- landscape science
- Founded by
- Carl Troll
- Main subject
- landscape
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- Category:Landscape ecology
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- Landscape ecology
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Encyclopedic overview
Land cover surrounding Madison, Wisconsin. Fields are colored yellow and brown and urban surfaces are colored red. Impervious surfaces surrounding Madison, Wisconsin Canopy cover surrounding Madison, Wisconsin
Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. Landscape ecology can be described as the science of "landscape diversity" as the synergetic result of biodiversity and geodiversity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “landscape ecology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.