How Connected is Connected? | Rapid Urbanization, Fragmented Landscape Patches, and Urban Ecology

Saehoon Kim

ISBN 10: 3838321189 / ISBN 13: 9783838321189

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2009

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How Connected is Connected? | Rapid Urbanization, Fragmented Landscape Patches, and Urban Ecology | Saehoon Kim | Taschenbuch | 96 S. | Englisch | 2009 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783838321189 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Connected is Connected? | Rapid Urbanization, Fragmented Landscape Patches, and Urban Ecology
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838321189
• ISBN 13: 9783838321189
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 161 grams
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Synopsis

The ecological value of urban landscape patches includes serving not only as major habitats for species, but also as stepping stones for animal dispersal, for enabling recolonization based on the metapopulation theory, for mitigating air pollution through dry deposit, and for controlling microclimate. Nonetheless, the removal, shrinkage, degradation, and fragmentation of patches has been common during the rapid urbanization of East Asian cities. This book provides a GIS-based simulation method in analyzing the spatial patterns of landscape patches, and discusses its ecological implications in two case-study cities ? Seoul and Tokyo?s 23 Special Wards, based on the evaluative criteria such as bio-diversity, species movement, and air pollution mitigation. This book attempts to motivate general readers, students, as well as researchers, with critical interests in the spatial patterns of urban forms and its ecological implication.