Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes

Reflects the profound changes that have taken place in the science of ecology away from the more classical view of ecological processes taking place within homogenous environments, to a recognition that organisms in the real world are clumped into patchy populations - and that this heterogeneity has significant effects on ecological processes.

Landscape mosaics and ecological theory, John Wiens. Part 1 Origin of landscape pattern: spatial and temporal landscape patterns in arid and semi-arid African savannas, A. Joy Belsky; effects of animals on landscape pattern, Carol Johnston. Part 2 Response of individuals and populations to landscape pattern: movement patterns related to spatial structures, Rolf Ims; habitat selection in mosaic landscapes, Douglas Morris; resource tracking in space and time, Michal Kozakiewicz. Part 3 Landscape pattern, population dynamics and population genetics: landscape structure and genetic variation in plants - empirical evidence, Andrew Young; effects of population dynamics on genetics in mosaic landscapes, David McCauley. Part 4 Effects of landscape pattern on species interaction: effects of landscape pattern on competitive interactions, Ilkka Hanski; effects of landscape composition on predation rates at habitat edges, Henrik Andren; the plant-pollinator landscape, Judith Bronstein. Part 5 Implications for conservation: landscape pattern and population conservation, Susan Harrison and Lenore Fahrig; incorporating landscape pattern into conservation programmes, Graham Arnold.