Landscape Ecology: A Top Down ApproachJames Sanderson CRC Press, 10 feb. 2020 - 272 sidor Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one region and repercussions in another. Landscape Ecology: A Top-Down Approach serves as a general introduction to this emerging area of study. |
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Landscape Theory and Practice | 89 |
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Land Use in America The Forgotten Agenda | 143 |
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Sida 15 - Physical ecosystem engineers are organisms that directly or indirectly control the availability of resources to other organisms by causing physical state changes in biotic or abiotic materials.
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