TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bissonette,John A.
AU  - Storch,Ilse
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources 
SN  - 9780387454474
AV  - QH541.15.L35 
U1  - 577 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Animal ecology
KW  - Ecosystems
KW  - Landscape ecology
KW  - Community ecology, Biotic
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Landscape Ecology
KW  - Animal Ecology
KW  - Community & Population Ecology
KW  - Environmental Management
N1  - Relevant Temporal Theory -- Resource Acquisition and Animal Response in Dynamic Landscapes -- Pulsed Resources and Community Responses -- Invoking the Ghosts of Landscapes Past to Understand the Landscape Ecology of the Present … and the Future -- Modeling Adaptive Behavior in Event-Driven Environments -- Temporal Scaling in Complex Systems -- Statistics of Time -- Using Statistical Models to Study Temporal Dynamics of Animal—Landscape Relations -- Multivariate Landscape Trajectory Analysis -- Temporally Focused Case Studies -- Assessing Grouse Habitats in the Alps -- Exploring the Temporal Effects of Seasonal Water Availability on the Snail Kite of Florida -- Three Axes of Ecological Studies -- Building and Using Habitat Models for Assessing Temporal Changes in Forest Ecosystems -- Foraging Responses of the Endangered Gouldian Finch to Temporal Differences in Seed Availability in Northern Australian Savanna Grasslands -- Spending Time in the Forest -- Niche Opportunities and Introduced Birds
N2  - Over the past twenty-five years, the effects of the spatial distribution and scaling of resources on animal populations have been increasingly studied in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, conservation biology, and related fields. However, spatial patterns change over time. In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations. Resource availability and quality are not distributed homogeneously over time, depending for example on predictable changes in seasons, mating and birthing cycles, unpredictable resource pulses and weather-related phenomena, ecological disturbances, and historical legacies. Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology brings together chapters that address the idea of current as well as historical temporal influences on resource availability, quality, and distribution. The authors draw attention to the neglected temporal issues so important to understanding species and community responses. This book will be of interest to both wildlife and conservation students and practitioners working with temporal and spatial scale issues
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45447-4
ER  -