Authors:
Bell, S.S., M.S. Fonseca and L.B. Motten
Publication Date:
1997
Abstract/Summary:
Landscape ecology focuses on questions typically addressed over broad spatial scales. A landscape approach embraces spatial heterogeneity, consisting of a number of ecosystems and/or landscape structures of different types, as a central theme. Such studies may aid restoration efforts in a variety of ways, including (1) provision of better guidance for selecting reference sites and establishing project goals and (2) suggestions for appropriate spatial configurations of restored elements to facilitate recruitment of flora/fauna. Likewise, restoration efforts may assist landscape-level studies, given that restored habitats, possessing various patch arrangements or being established among landscapes of varying diversity and conditions of human alteration, can provide extraordinary opportunities for experimentation over a large spatial scale.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Restoration Ecology
Link:
http://www.esalq.usp.br/lcb/lerf/divulgacao/recomendados/artigos/bell1997.pdf