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Ecotones--The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments.

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1992

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1. Introduction: The role of landscape boundaries in the management and restoration of changing environments.- 2. Fundamental ecological characteristics of landscape boundaries.- 3. Climatic constraints and issues of scale controlling regional biomes.- 4. Potential responses of landscape boundaries to global environmental change.- 5. Simulation of the scale-dependent effects of landscape boundaries on species persistence and dispersal.- 6. Human impact on the functioning of landscape boundaries.- 7. Restoration of human impacted land-water ecotones.- 8. Summary: Landscape boundaries in the management and restoration of changing environments.