Brings together contributions from leaders in landscape ecology and addresses the issue of how what we know about landscape ecology can help us understand, manage and maintain biodiversity. It is designed as a resource for ecologists, conservation biologists and landscape managers.

This volume brings together contributions from leaders in landscape ecology and addresses the issue of how what we know about landscape ecology can help us understand, manage and maintain biodiversity. It is divided into six parts, concluding with a synthesis and drawing conclusions about the utility of the landscape approach to conservation. It is designed as a resource for study and reference for ecologists, conservation biologists and landscape managers.

Foreword--Richard T. T. Forman.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Contributors.- Section I. Introduction.- Central Concepts and Issues of Landscape Ecology--John A. Wiens.- Central Concepts and Issues of Biological Conservation--Richard L. Knight and Peter B. Landres.- Broad-Scale Ecological Science and Its Application--Barry R. Noon and Virginia H. Dale.- Section II. Multiple Scales, Connectivity, and Biota Movement.- Spatial Factors Affecting Organism Occurrence, Movement, and Conservation: Introduction to Section II--Kevin J. Gutzwiller.- Patch-, Landscape-, and Regional- Scale Effects on Biota--Kathryn Freemark, Marc-AndrT Villard, and Dan Bert.- Corridors and Species Dispersal--Claire C. Vos, Hans Baveco, and Carla J. Grashof-Bokdam.- Using Percolation Theory to Assess Landscape Connectivity and Effects of Habitat Fragmentation--Kimberly A. With.- Landscape Connections and Genetic Diversity--H. B. Britten and R. J. Baker.- Habitat Networks and Biological Conservation-- Richard J. Hobbs.- Landscape Invasibility by Exotic Species--John L. Vankat and D. Graham Roy.- Section III. Landscape Change.- Conservation in Human-Altered Landscapes: Introduction to Section III.