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Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology is the study of how ecosystems are arranged and how their arrangements affect the wildlife and environmental conditions that comprise them. An ecologist might study a population of wildlife species in a given habitat, while a landscape ecologist looks at how the holistic patterns of the land, such as its topography, water, forest cover, and human uses, affect wildlife populations. Wildlife Conservation Society’s Landscape Ecology Program looks at entire landscapes to determine how to best protect wildlife. As a discipline, landscape ecology is quite young, but already many conservation biologists have found its essential elements extremely useful in their work.
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Landscape Ecology Projects:
The Human Footprint- Comprehensive world mapping project showing how human beings directly influence more than three quarters of the earth's landmass.
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