Landscape Ecology and Resource Management: Linking Theory With Practice

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Summary: Considering scientific environmental conservation matters
Review: Collaboratively compiled and edited by John A. Bissonette (Research Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey; Professor in the College of Natural Resources, Utah State University; and head of the Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit) and Ilse Storch (Research Scientist and Lecturer, Weilhenstephan Center of Life Sciences, Techniische Universitat Munchen, Munich Germany; Research Associate, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany; and Chair, IUCN Grouse Specialist Group), Landscape, Ecology And Resource Management: Linking Theory With Practice is a scholarly collection of informed and informative essays by a variety of learned authors and contributors considering scientific environmental conservation matters ranging from landscape theory and population dynamics; to problems with linking scales in the use of indicator species; to the implications of body mass patterns; to connecting landscape management with conservation of Wisconsin grassland birds, and much, much more. Landscape, Ecology And Resource Management is strongly recommended as an invaluable, core addition to Environmental Studies and Resource Management Studies reference collections and reading lists.