Landscape Ecology is an emerging science of gaining momentum over the past few decades in the scientific as well as in the planning-management worlds. Although the field is rooted in biology and geography, the approaches to understanding the ecology of a landscape are highly divers. This hybrid vigor provides power to the field. One can no longer view a local ecosystem or land use in isolation from global areas and time frames. The surrounding landscape mosaic and the flows and movements in a landscape must be considered, especially the linkage between humans requiring resources provided by nature, the constraints on their use as well as the responding landscape.

Assisted by: J. Baudry, F. Burel, R.T.T. Forman, J.F. Franklin, E.R. Fuentes, W. Haber, W.B. Harms, G. Merriam, L. Miklos, E.P. Odum, P. Opdam, P.G. Risser, M. Ruzicka, K.-F. Schreiber, J.R. Sedell, F.J. Swanson, M.G. Turner, R.G. Woodmannsee, I.S. Zonneveld