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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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CHOICE Review

Landscape architecture students have struggled to see the application of systematic ecology courses to design. As an ecologist and a landscape architect, this reviewer is dismayed by this attitude. Students have been encouraged to explore landscape ecology, in which the scales of study and requisite inclusion of cultural patterns have direct ties to planning and design; the book under review supports this approach. Key landscape ecology works such as Landscape Ecology, by Richard T.T. Forman and Michel Godron (1986); Forman's Land Mosaics (CH, Jul'96); Landschapsecologie en Landgebruik, by A.P.A. Vink (1980); and Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application, by Zeev Naveh and Arthur S. Lieberman (2nd ed, 1994), have not met these introductory needs. The book under review is an affordable, readable primer on landscape ecology with an emphasis on application. Part 1 describes principal elements of landscape ecology; part 2 compiles schematic applications and case studies. Illustrations with captioned synopses are used throughout. However, in part 1, the complexity and variability among landscapes is hidden by simplistic "rules" of how landscape elements function; and the case studies and applications are quite brief, limiting design approach development. Suitable for general readers and lower-division undergraduates. J. Silbernagel Washington State University