Landscape and Restoration Ecology
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University of Copenhagen
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Country
Denmark
Language
English
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Description
Landscape and Restoration Ecology deals with causes and consequences of landscape variation and why and how to restore damaged ecosystems. The course provides important input to the management of ecosystems and landscapes. Dispersal, distribution and manipulation of plants and animals, regulation of pollutants from farms and cities are examples of the subjects dealt with in the course.
The Landscape and Restoration Ecology course cover the following topics:
- Landscape attributes; geology, terrain, hydrology, land cover and the technosphere.
- Landscape patterns and structure; types of configuration of ecotopes and elements on the earth surface. Aggregation of ecotopes in chores.
- Landscape function; Fluxes of energy, matter and genes. Isolation and contact, the concept of systems.
- Multifunctional landscapes; Ecological function, land use related functions and services, transcending functions - designated and perceived landscapes.
- Structural-functional interrelationships; species dispersal in landscapes, island biogeography: patch-corridor-matrix as a landscape model.
- Landscape dynamics and change; Causes behind changes, stability, resistance and resilience.
- Restoration ecology; basic concepts, forms of degradation, restoration goals, trajectory, monitoring and evaluation, restoration policy.
- Ecological restoration; forests, mires, heat-lands, meadows, invasive species, manipulation of the environment, e.g. soils, manipulation of biota, e.g. re-introduction.
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