Principles of ecological landscape design / Travis Beck.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.

Introduction -- Right plant, right place: biogeography and plant selection -- Beyond massing: working with plant populations and communities -- The struggle for coexistence: on competition and assembling tight communities -- Complex creations: designing and managing ecosystems -- Maintaining the world as we know it: biodiversity for high-functioning landscapes -- The stuff of life: promoting living soils and healthy waters -- The birds and the bees: integrating other organisms -- When lightning strikes: counting on disturbance, planning for succession -- An ever shifting mosaic: landscape ecology applied -- No time like the present: creating landscapes for an era of global change.