InhaltsangabeI Issues and Challenges in Landscape Ecology.- 1. Landscape Ecology: Does the Science Only Need to Change at the Margin?.- 2. Clark Kent or Superman: Where Is the Phone Booth for Landscape Ecology?.- 3. Cross-Boundary Issues to Manage for Healthy Forest Ecosystems.- 4. Horizontal Processes, Roads, Suburbs, Societal Objectives, and Landscape Ecology.- II Modeling Applications.- 5. A Knowledge System Environment for Ecosystem Management.- 6. A Multiscale Ecological Model for Allocation of Training Activities on U.S. Army Installations.- 7. HARVEST: A Timber Harvest Allocation Model for Simulating Management Alternatives.- III Planning Strategies.- 8. A Hierarchical Framework for Conserving Biodiversity.- 9. Conserving Biological Diversity with Scarce Resources.- 10. Spatial Concepts, Planning Strategies, and Future Scenarios: A Framework Method for Integrating Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning.- IV Concepts, Methodological Implications, and Numerical Techniques.- 11. Concepts of Scale in Landscape Ecology.- 12. Spatial Statistics in Landscape Ecology.- 13. RULE: Map Generation and a Spatial Analysis Program.- 14. ClaraT: Instructional Software for Fractal Pattern Generation and Analysis.- V The Teaching of Landscape Ecology.- 15. Effective Exercises in Teaching Landscape Ecology.- VI Synthesis.- 16. The Science and Practice of Landscape Ecology.