1 Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. Tel. +49-331-977-2480 Fax +49-331-977-2092 email: [email protected] 2 Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. 3 Current address: Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management AN...

R E G I N A N E U D E R T 1, 2 ∗, JÖRG U . G AN Z H O RN 3 AND FRANK WÄTZOLD 1 1Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Postbox 101344, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany, 2Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Soldmannstraße 15, 17489 Greifswald, Germany and 3Department of Animal Ecology and Conservation, University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel, Martin-Luther-...

1. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jacob LaCroix attended The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, WI were he got a BS degree studying Wildlife Management. He later attended Michigan Technological University, in Houghton, MI were he got an MS Degree in Ecology. His thesis was on stream ecology. He currently attends the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, working on his PhD degree, studying Landscape Ec...

This paper applies concepts of landscape ecology and patch dynamics to lotic systems. We present a framework for the investigation of pattern and process in lotic ecosystems that considers how specific patch characteristics determine biotic and abiotic processes over various scales. Patch characteristics include: size, size distribution within the landscape, juxtaposition, diversity, duration, ...

T. Hájek ([email protected]), Inst. of Botany of ASCR, Dukelská 135, CZ 37982 Třeboň, Czech Republic. E-S. Tuittila and R. Laiho, Dept of Forest Ecology, Univ. of Helsinki, PO Box 27, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. M. Ilomets, Dept of Landscape Ecology, Inst. of Ecology, Tallinn Univ., Uus-Sadama 5, EE 10120 Tallinn, Estonia. TH also at: Faculty of Science, Univ. of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31...

1 Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope, Institute for Sustainability Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, 3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 4 Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of...

Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Biodiversity, Macroecology and Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Community Ecology, Helm...

In a famous passage in the concluding chapter of The Origin of Species, Darwin (1859, 1964) invites the reader to “contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth” and “reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dep...