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Animals, plants, water, wind, materials and people flow at different rates, according to spatial patterns common to almost all landscapes and regions. This up-to-date synthesis explores the ecology of heterogeneous land areas, where natural processes and human activities spatially interact, to produce an ever changing mosaic. The subject has great relevance to today's society, and this book reflects the breadth of its importance; there are many ideas and applications for planning, conservation, design, management, sustainability and policy. Spatial solutions are provided for society's land-use objectives. An appealing book, with a highly-readable text on this major emerging field. Students and professionals alike will be drawn by the attractive and informative illustrations, the conceptual synthesis, the wide international perspective and the range of topics and research covered.

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• Part I Landscapes and Regions
• 1 Foundations
• Part Ii Patches
• 2 Patch size and number
• 3 Boundaries and edges
• 4 Patch shape
• Part III Corridors
• 5 Corridor attributes, roads and powerlines
• 6 Windbreaks, hedges and woodland corridors
• 7 Stream and river corridors
• 8 Networks and the matrix
• Part IV Mosaics and Flows
• 9 Configurations and mosaics
• 10 Wind and water flows in mosaics
• 11 Species movements in mosaics
• Part V Changing Mosaics
• 12 Land transformation and fragmentation
• 13 Land planning and management
• 14 Creating sustainable environments

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CHOICE Review

Built on earlier work by Forman and Michel Godron (Landscape Ecology, 1986) and the recent, vast literature in landscape ecology, Land Mosaics is comprehensive in scope. It provides useful discussions of terminology and paradigms of ecology at broader temporal and spatial scales. Forman encourages a thorough understanding of current models of landscape structure, relationships to ecological processes, and potential applications in natural resource management. Large volumes of theory are clearly presented in a narrative fashion with informative illustrations. The integration of ecological principles for design and management of landscapes and regions, understanding of human-induced change to the landscape, and sustainability of resource use are given more emphasis than in the authors' previous work. However, due to the broad nature of the book, the sense of landscape ecology as a scientific pursuit becomes less obvious. The list of references is outstanding, providing readers with further opportunities for literature search. An excellent resource for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, resource managers, and scientists in all fields of landscape ecology, biological conservation, and applied ecology. J. Chen Michigan Technological University