What is a landscape ecologist?
WT
PS: "scape" comes from the root, "skep," meaning to cut or to hack. Ironic,
given the current vernacular, no?
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From: "Jim DeCoster"
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Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:42 AM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Marine Landscape Ecologist
Mar
Dear colleagues,
The following article has just been published in this month's issue of
Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS):
Ecosystem models clarify the trophic role of whales off Northwest Africa
ABSTRACT: There is global concern about the interaction between whales
and fisheries, and
And, while we're at it, what is an ecosystem(s) ecologist?
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:09:15 -0700
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> Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology Terminology Ecologist Landscape Re:
> [ECOLOG-L] Marine Landscape Ecologist
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>
> What is a landscape ecol
Dave,
This reference may be helpful. I don't recall the particulars of the analysis
but I seem to remember that they did some type of quantitative analysis of
color, good luck, Robert
Regulation and Significance of Color Patterns of the Spotted Kelpfish, Gibbonsia
elegans Cooper, 1864 (Blennioide
Wayne, as you probably know, we used to use terms such as "watershed
management" to describe a more holistic approach to broad-area applied
ecology. Wanting to make it geographically less exclusive and
scientifically more refined, we started using the term "landscape ecology."
That's an oversimp
I'm ignorant, of course, but this post helps--thanks. The website I
consulted (apparently highly reputable) was very confusing to me, and if it
was about ecology, I've got a lot more learning to do than I had feared.
Maybe I'm losing my grip? I don't understand how spatial patterning itself
aff
Thanks, Warren, that's more understandable.
I haven't looked up the etymology of landscape recently, but when I did some
years ago, I ended up at the Indo-European root "skep," to "hack" or "to
cut."* Either way, the term is embedded in the language. It is only a
curiosity, and the actual orig
