The contents of Landscape Bionomics (LB) start from the integration of the separated fields of study of traditional ecology, developing the structure, functions, transformations, and evaluations of landscape units (LU) and of their natural and anthropic components, already deepened in the previous book. Every biological system shows a very complex structure consisting of well-defined functional sets in a context of substrates varying in space-time. Remembering that the structure and the functions of a complex system are closely interrelated, two faces of the same evolving system, processes take shape creating the form of the landscape and of it subsystems. The ecotissue represents the general structural model of a landscape unit (LU), that is, of a well-characterized part of a landscape, a territorial niche, the minor multidimensional subsystem of which can be called an ecotope. A system of LUs forms a landscape. Cybernetic processes are realized through interacting chains of organisms and communities which behave like information networks in the ecotissue, so much so that through them and their emergent properties, it is possible to maintain a certain level of metastability. Following Landscape Bionomic (LB) and the capacity of vegetation to control energy, matter, and information, we discovered a systemic function able to evaluate the energy flux available to maintain the order reached by a complex phytocoenosis: the biological territorial capacity of vegetation (BTC). The main functions of a LU can be distinguished through actual ecological-functional apparatuses, which are analogous to the apparatuses of living organisms. Strictly related are the processes enhancing the main link between animal and human populations and their landscapes, which bring to their living space per capita: the processes can be expressed and quantified through the concept of “standard habitat per capita” (SH); SH is the inverse of the ecological density of the population, measurable in m2/organism. Concerning the reproductive landscape processes, it should be underlined that the reproductive processes of a landscape respond to the reproductive functions valid for all biological systems: the same for all the main other processes of living systems (Ingegnoli, Israel J Plant Sci 53:155–166, 2005).

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Structure, Functions, Transformations of a Landscape

  • Vittorio Ingegnoli

摘要

The contents of Landscape Bionomics (LB) start from the integration of the separated fields of study of traditional ecology, developing the structure, functions, transformations, and evaluations of landscape units (LU) and of their natural and anthropic components, already deepened in the previous book. Every biological system shows a very complex structure consisting of well-defined functional sets in a context of substrates varying in space-time. Remembering that the structure and the functions of a complex system are closely interrelated, two faces of the same evolving system, processes take shape creating the form of the landscape and of it subsystems. The ecotissue represents the general structural model of a landscape unit (LU), that is, of a well-characterized part of a landscape, a territorial niche, the minor multidimensional subsystem of which can be called an ecotope. A system of LUs forms a landscape. Cybernetic processes are realized through interacting chains of organisms and communities which behave like information networks in the ecotissue, so much so that through them and their emergent properties, it is possible to maintain a certain level of metastability. Following Landscape Bionomic (LB) and the capacity of vegetation to control energy, matter, and information, we discovered a systemic function able to evaluate the energy flux available to maintain the order reached by a complex phytocoenosis: the biological territorial capacity of vegetation (BTC). The main functions of a LU can be distinguished through actual ecological-functional apparatuses, which are analogous to the apparatuses of living organisms. Strictly related are the processes enhancing the main link between animal and human populations and their landscapes, which bring to their living space per capita: the processes can be expressed and quantified through the concept of “standard habitat per capita” (SH); SH is the inverse of the ecological density of the population, measurable in m2/organism. Concerning the reproductive landscape processes, it should be underlined that the reproductive processes of a landscape respond to the reproductive functions valid for all biological systems: the same for all the main other processes of living systems (Ingegnoli, Israel J Plant Sci 53:155–166, 2005).