Your faculty value the opportunity to collaborate and believe this kind of interdisciplinary effort is necessary for the best community planning and design solutions. Therefore, they ask that you adopt the goal of forming effective interdisciplinary partnerships in this course and in your professional career.

Demonstrate Teamswork!

Landscape Ecology Study Questions

What is the Land Mosaic and how does impact site planning?

How can administrative boundaries help protect ecological boundaries?

What are some of the pros and cons of having space between patches?

How does the abruptness of the an edge affect ecological diversity?

What are some benefits of having convoluted edges rather than geometric edges?

What are the five functions of corridors?

What are nodes, and what is special about their ecological makeup verses other parts of a corridor?

How is species movement and interaction effected as the complexity of the network changes?

What can compensate for the lack of corridors, a disturbance in the main corridor or the presence of danger such as a predator?

Be able to define the landscape principle illustrated in any of the diagrams shown on the two landscape ecology pages of this web site.

Draw the shape of the optimum habitat patch.

Patches are differentiated according to which three characteristics?

Past Projects of This Studio

We have contributed to the positive planning and design efforts of many communities during the ten years that this combined studio has been doing outreach work. We have worked in these Idaho communities: Orofino, Riggins, Grangeville, Harrison, Hayden, Sandpoint, Lewiston, Star, Rupert, New Meadows, McCall; these Washington communities - Clarkston ; and these Montana communities - Seeley Lake.