Ecotope

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Biotope/rcTcCxRR">Biotope</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ecotype/eQGDmsjP">Ecotype</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
<ul><li>Bastian, O., C. Beierkuhlein, H. J. Klink, J. Löfffler, U. Steinhardt, M. Volk, and M. Wilmking. 2003. Landscape structures and processes. Pages 49–112 in O. Bastian and U. Steinhardt, eds. Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers.</li>
<li>Farina, A. 1998. Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. Chapman & Hall, London; New York.</li>
<li>Foreman, R. and Godron, M. 1986. Landscape Ecology. Wiley, New York.</li>
<li>Haber, W. 1994. System ecological concepts for environmental planning. Pages 49–67 in F. Klijn, ed. Ecosystem Classification for Environmental Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.</li>
<li>Ingegnoli, V. 2002. Landscape Ecology - a Widening Foundation: A Holistic Unifying Approach. Springer, Berlin; New York.</li>
<li>Klijn, F., and H. A. Udo De Haes. 1994. A hierarchical approach to ecosystems and its implications for ecological land classification. Landscape Ecology 9: 89-104.</li>
<li>Schmithüsen, J. 1948. "Fliesengefüge der Landschaft" und "Ökotop": Vorschläge zur begrifflichen Ordnung und zur Nomenklatur in der Landschaftsforschung. Berichte zur Deutschen Landeskunde (Bad Godesberg) 5: 74-83.</li>
<li>Tansley, A. G. 1939. The British Isles and Their Vegetation. Vol. 1 of 2. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 494 pp.</li>
<li>Troll, C. 1950. Die geografische landschaft und ihre erforschung. Pages 163-181. Studium Generale 3. Springer, Heidelberg, German Democratic Republic.</li>
<li>Whittaker, R. H., S. A. Levin, and R. B. Root. 1973. Niche, habitat, and ecotope. American Naturalist 107: 321-338.</li>
<li>Zonneveld, I. S. 1989. The land unit - A fundamental concept in landscape ecology, and its applications. Landscape Ecology 3: 67-86.</li></ul>
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Look up <i>ecotope</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.ecotope.org/about/ecotopes">A set of different definitions of the term "ecotope"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Ecotope">Ecotope at Encyclopedia of Earth</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Sørensen, T. (1936). "Some ecosystemtical characteristics determined by Raunkiær's circling method". Nordiska (19. skandinaviska) naturforskarmötet i Helsingfors den 11-15 augusti 1936: 474–475. "To designate the fundamental unit of ecological plant sociology I propose the term ecotope, viz. the field delimited as an object of investigation within a given ecosystem (Tansley)" <a href="/wiki/Thorvald_S%C3%B8rensen" target="_blank">/wiki/Thorvald_S%C3%B8rensen</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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