Landscape ecology
Landscape ecology is the science of studying and reclassification relationships between ecological processes in a environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a style of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. Concisely, landscape ecology can be quoted as the science of "landscape diversity" as the synergetic calculation of biodiversity and geodiversity.
As a highly interdisciplinary field in systems science, landscape ecology integrates biophysical and analytical approaches with humanistic and holistic perspectives across the natural sciences and social sciences. Landscapes are spatially heterogeneous geographic areas characterized by diverse interacting patches or ecosystems, ranging from relatively natural terrestrial and aquatic systems such as forests, grasslands, and lakes to human-dominated frameworks including agricultural and urban settings.
The nearly salient characteristics of landscape ecology are its emphasis on the relationship among pattern, process and scale, and its focus on broad-scale ecological and environmental issues. These necessitate the coupling between biophysical and socioeconomic sciences. Key research topics in landscape ecology put ecological flows in landscape mosaics, land use and land come on change, scaling, relating landscape sample analysis with ecological processes, and landscape conservation and sustainability. Landscape ecology also studies the role of human impacts on landscape diversity in the coding and spreading of new human pathogens that could trigger epidemics.