Again, I fundamentally disagree. If you're truly going to focus on the
spatial aspect, let's be honest and call it biogeography.
How landscape ecology is now done is really irrelevant to what it should
be called. If you're going to focus on the tool you say is primarily
used in the analysis (GIS), then the name should have geography in it.
The fact is that landscape ecology arose before the widespread
availability of geographic information systems, and a lot of landscape
ecology can be done without geographic information systems. Landscape
ecology has been named and described, has several monographs devoted to
it, and still has a journal devoted to it (all of which use the term
"landscape ecology" somewhere in the title).
Therefore, I suggest that such attempts to fix the term "landscape
ecology" would create more confusion than it would cure -- not to
mention meet determined resistance from landscape ecologists.
Later,
Dave
On 5/27/2013 5:11 PM, malcolm McCallum wrote:
In Europe, landscape ecology rose out of landscape architecture.
In Americas, it rose out of natural resources.
In fact, it is probably better to refer to as spatial ecology, since
90% of what this field encompasses is really spatial analysis using
GIS.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Chris Buddenhagen
<[email protected]> wrote:
Not so sure about this etymology - it looks like it might come from
dutch/old english. Plus taking a look at it sounds like the scape suffix is
more akin to ship, as in penmanship, relationship, dealership....
landscape
(n.)<http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=landscape&allowed_in_frame=0>
[image:
Look up landscape at
Dictionary.com]<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=landscape>
c.1600,
"painting representing natural scenery," from Dutch landschap, from Middle
Dutch landscap "region," from land "land" (see
land<http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=land&allowed_in_frame=0>)
+ -scap "-ship, condition" (see
-ship<http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-ship&allowed_in_frame=0>).
Originally introduced as a painters' term. Old English had cognate landscipe,
and cf. Old High German lantscaf, German Landschaft, Old Norse landskapr.
Meaning "tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics" is from
1886.
Chris Buddenhagen
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