![]() "'Essentials of Landscape Ecology' thus grew out of my own research interests, as well as from my experiences teaching various iterations of landscape ecology over the past two decades."Ī faculty member at K-State since 2000, With runs the Laboratory for Landscape and Conservation Ecology, which studies the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation and land management on species and their interactions across small experimental landscapes to broad regional landscapes. "As an organismic biologist with training in population and community ecology, this expanded definition of landscape ecology very much appealed to my interests, but it was not a view that was well represented in any of the available texts or edited volumes on the subject," With said. She said landscape ecology provides an ideal framework for addressing those sorts of pattern-process linkages. With humans altering ecologies across a wide range of scales, With said there is an urgent need to understand how these cross-scale interactions between humans and other types of disturbances alter species distributions and critical ecological and evolutionary processes in ways that could affect the long-term resilience and sustainability of ecosystems. With said the landscape ecology field has grown beyond the study and management of landscapes at human-defined scales to encompass the study of how spatial or environmental heterogeneity influences ecological patterns and processes across a broad range of scales. "Researching and writing this book has been the most challenging project of my career and ultimately, the most satisfying for me personally as well as professionally."Ī comprehensive textbook, "Essentials of Landscape Ecology" looks at the diverse and multidisciplinary field of landscape ecology and presents the principles, theory, methods and applications of the field in an accessible format, supplemented by examples and case studies from a variety of systems, including freshwater and marine. "I am beyond grateful to receive this recognition, especially as writing this book has been a very personal experience that required taking some professional risks," With said. With calls earning the award one of the greatest honors of her career. It is awarded to a book published in the last two years that has had the greatest influence on ecology or its application.Ī professor in the Division of Biology, With is among 11 distinguished biologists being recognized with an award from the British Ecological Society for work that has benefited the scientific community and society in general. The award recognizes the contributions authors make to ecology and acknowledges the important role that books have on ecology and its development. Kimberly With, the author of " Essentials of Landscape Ecology," published in 2019 by the Oxford University Press, is the recipient of the society's Marsh Ecology Book of the Year award. ![]() Conservation management should be directed at whole landscapes to ensure the survival of species that range widely across different ecosystems (e.g., jaguars, quetzals, species of plants that have widely dispersed pollen and seeds) ( Hunter, 2002: 83-85, 268-270).ĭiversity within and between landscapes depends on local and regional variations in environmental conditions, as well as the species supported by those environments.MANHATTAN - A Kansas State University ecologist is receiving the top book award from the prestigious British Ecological Society. Species composition and population viability are often affected by the structure of the landscape for example, the size, shape, and connectivity of individual patches of ecosystems within the landscape (Noss, 1990). Although there is no standard definition of the size of a landscape, they are usually in the hundred or thousands of square miles. Therefore, assemblages of different ecosystems (the physical environments and the species that inhabit them, including humans) create landscapes on Earth. \)Ī landscape is "a mosaic of heterogeneous land forms, vegetation types, and land uses" (Urban et al., 1987).
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