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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Landscape function"”.
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Perceptions of landscape function within the field of landscape architecture
Landscape functions are the processes that support life by rendering ecosystem services and goods. Thus, in a time of profound ecological destabilization, our future well-being depends on our ability to preserve, to enhance, and to avoid degrading landscape functions. Landscape architects have the …
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Plant communities in field margins of agricultural landscapes: species distributions, functional traits, and contributions to landscape function
Most of the agricultural landscapes are a mosaic of cultivated fields, semi-natural habitats, human infrastructures and occasional natural habitats. Within such landscapes, linear semi-natural habitats often define the edges of agricultural fields, called “field margins”. Field margins are an …
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Incorporating ecological networks and green infrastructure into spatial strategies: Mapping optimal locations for habitat banks
Negative landscape change and impacts on biodiversity, as a consequence of development, must be mitigated for. In the UK mitigation is carried out through a variety of policy and planning instruments whose delivery measures are often piecemeal, thus restricting their ability to address the …
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The selection process of analogue parameters and criteria for rehabilitation design at Sishen mine
… the vicinity of the mine regarding ecology using landscape function analysis; regarding substrate by comparisons of soil parent material, slope, structure and chemical characteristics; vegetatively by comparing species richness, abundance, structure, composition, cover, dominance, production, …
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Managing rangeland change in New South Wales for landscape repair
The rangelands of southeastern Australia are a landscape with extensive evidence of historical land degradation. Monitoring and managing this historic land degradation is made challenging by the disparities of scale throughout the rangelands, which make implementing solutions to ongoing erosion …
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Macro to Micro Legacies of Landuse at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory
… (CCZO). The 190km2 CCZO is part of a broader landscape in the southeastern US which was subjected to extensive agricultural degradation for approximately two hundred years before cultivation was abandoned sixty or more years ago. The physical and functional dynamics of land abandonment were …