Perlman - Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers and Citizens - Appendix potx

... R. S. Palone and A. H. Todd, eds., Chesapeake Bay Riparian Handbook:A Guide for Estab- lishing and Maintaining Riparian Forest Buffers, NA-TP-0 2-9 7 (Radnor, PA: USDA Forest Serv- ice, 1997), ... Septem- ber 30, 2003. Chapter 6. The Ecology of Landscapes 1. Richard T. T. Forman and Michel Godron, Landscape Ecology (New York: Wiley,1986); Zev Navah and Arthur Lieberman, Landsc...

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... Cataloging-in-Publication data. Perlman, Dan L. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and citizens / Dan L. Perlman, Jeffrey C. Milder. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ... about Scale 95 Form and Function of Matrices, Patches, and Corridors 97 Land Mosaics, Land Transformation, and Implications for Planning 110 Ecosystem Ecology 118...

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... HUMANS, NATURE, AND INTERACTIONS Figure 1-1 . This sample site map shows a fifty-acre (20 ha) farm, including fields, farm buildings, a stream and wetlands, and some forest. Like many maps and plans, ... their lives in the wetland. Land use planners, designers, and developers usually work within unam- biguous geographic boundaries and over relatively short time periods. In con...

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... sala- manders and other species in their community.They would ask which species eat the salamanders, which ones the salamanders eat, and which ones compete with the salamanders for food and other ... and engineering-oriented individuals, and an ethical argument that avoids discus- sions of money and appeals directly to human intuition. For land use planners and the constitue...

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... however, the town-become-city now ex- tends well out into the neighboring farmlands, rangelands, and mountains and has become part of a larger metropolitan complex (see Figure 3-1 ). Exponentia ... native habitat. This is a zero-sum game with three players: natural habi- tats, agricultural lands, and urban land uses. As one land use expands—typically, human-inhabited areas—one or both...

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... once again forested. Stands of white pine covered many abandoned fields and pastures, while other open-land specialists—gray birch, aspens, and cherries—filled other abandoned farmlands. The turn ... 57 Figure 4-3 . Modern-day Petersham, Massachusetts. This landscape was mostly farm- land in the 1800s but is now once again mostly forested. Box 4-1 The Long-Term Context: Extinctions an...

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... into a handful of guide- lines for ecologically based planning and design. First, as we plan human land uses, it is important to understand the patterns of native populations and meta- populations ... bullfrogs and mosquitofish, also compete with red-legged frogs for specific food sources. Both bullfrogs and mosquitofish were introduced to California by humans for food and mosqui...

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... speaks to the need for immediate and radical action, yet planning is marked by incrementalism and political give -and- take, and land development is marked by risk-averse formulas for financial success. ... and to preserve nature’s mag- nificent legacy for its own sake and that of future human generations. The Ecology of Landscapes 127 Figure 6-5 b. High-speed two-lane road...

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... Land cover data usually distinguish among various types of forests, grasslands, or wetlands (e.g., coniferous forest versus mixed forest versus hard- wood forest) and are especially helpful for ... scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to pro- vide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unim- paire...

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... natural and semi-natural areas of various types; in the next chapter, we will discuss how damaged lands can be restored and how natural and semi-natural lands can be managed for long- term ecological ... urban and suburban areas will almost always be multiple-use lands, providing some level of utility for plants and animals as well as for humans. Yet, how these lands are plann...

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