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Course Discription |
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This course is aimed to introduce the students to the major concepts of the recently emerged landscape ecology branch of science. Basic components of landscape ecology and their definitions will be discussed, i.e. pattern, patch, corridor, matrix. Processes affecting landscape development in addition to equilibrium and dynamic paradigms will be discussed. The relationships between landscape ecology and other high technologies like geographic information systems and remote sensing, scale and hierarchy theory, scaling techniques are among the topics that will be covered in this course. |