Ecología del Paisaje. Un marco para el estudio integrado de la dinámica territorial y su incidencia en la vida silvestre

Abstract

A review on the conceptual basis and aims of Landscape Ecology, scientific discipline that presents an important geographical component, is realized. It assumes that landscape heterogeneity controls diverse movements and flows of organisms, matter and energy. One of the principal objects of study of the above mentioned discipline is the existing relations between landscape structural patterns and dynamics of wild populations and communities. This is an aspect of great applicability in biodiversity conservation and land-use planning policies. In relation to this subject matter, transdisciplinarity of Landscape Ecology is described.