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Synopsis: This foundational text focuses on the distribution patterns of landscape elements that affect flows of animals, plants, energy, mineral nutrients and water in an ecosystem. The book also discusses the ecological implications of landscape change over time. The book introduces the important and well documented concepts of patches, corridors, and a background matrix and the building blocks of landscape (figure 4). The patch-corridor-matrix model is thus comprised of these three principle components which, together, constitute a landscape mosaic: Patches are “relatively homogenous non-linear areas that differ from their surroundings”. Corridors are “strips of a particular patch type that differ from the adjacent...
Synopsis: This book is the foundational text for understanding landscape ecology in terms of pattern/process relationships. Forman introduces the concept of “indispensible patterns” of habitat and habitat linkages that, if protected, can conserve the majority of important ecological function in a landscape. While all or specific attributes of an ecosystem may not be protected by these measures, the most important assets will retain their integrity if the essential general patterns are maintained. Forman’s Indispensable Landscape Patterns are related to both configuration and connectivity and fragmentation (figure 1). Forman suggests that the following patterns are indispensable in maintaining an ecologically viable...