This paper explores various methods of integrating art into the landscape. It is recognized that the landscape is an important location of human experience. Art has the capacity to enhance our understanding of the world as it is concerned with heightening one's perceptions. Thus, it is important that art be integrated into the landscape to illuminate the relationship between humans and the material world. A literature review is conducted in order to determine methods of integrating art with the landscape. First, precedents of art in the landscape, and art and landscape architectural theory, are researched to identify criteria of engaging landscape experience. Second, a typology of differing modes of integrating art and landscape architecture is drawn out of the literature review. In response to the research, a site is chosen and designed according to the types identified. The designs provide a model of various modes of integrating art with the landscape and allow the theory to be tested and evaluated. The conclusion is that there is no right way of integrating art into the environment, but that in certain situations one type may be more appropriate than another. It is recognized that planning for art in the landscape is extremely important to ensuring integration between artwork and landscape. Perhaps then, the typology identified in this paper is best used by public art planners in the pre-development stage. By planning for art in the landscape proactively, there is less opportunity for landscape and artwork to be autonomous and objectified. To be sure, when art is integrated with the landscape the experience of place is enriched, and as a result, the human experience is enhanced.

This paper explores various methods of integrating art into the landscape. It is recognized that the landscape is an important location of human experience. Art has the capacity to enhance our understanding of the world as it is concerned with heightening one's perceptions. Thus, it is important that art be integrated into the landscape to illuminate the relationship between humans and the material world. A literature review is conducted in order to determine methods of integrating art with the landscape. First, precedents of art in the landscape, and art and landscape architectural theory, are researched to identify criteria of engaging landscape experience. Second, a typology of differing modes of integrating art and landscape architecture is drawn out of the literature review. In response to the research, a site is chosen and designed according to the types identified. The designs provide a model of various modes of integrating art with the landscape and allow the theory to be tested and evaluated. The conclusion is that there is no right way of integrating art into the environment, but that in certain situations one type may be more appropriate than another. It is recognized that planning for art in the landscape is extremely important to ensuring integration between artwork and landscape. Perhaps then, the typology identified in this paper is best used by public art planners in the pre-development stage. By planning for art in the landscape proactively, there is less opportunity for landscape and artwork to be autonomous and objectified. To be sure, when art is integrated with the landscape the experience of place is enriched, and as a result, the human experience is enhanced. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Includes special report study entitled :Artificial habitat for plants. Also available in printed format.

The content in my graduation theses is characteristic of villages and poeple in outbuildings , which disappeared by the development JETE. I wrote about trend in number of houses and poeple in the time 1869 {--} 2001 in comparision with Southbohemia region, district around Č. Budějovice, city Týn n. Vltavou and village Temelín, which is nearly JETE. People compare target the age, nationality and economy power in the country around JETE. I wanted to desribe structure of settled outbuildings. The trend of the country target the farmland, status quo around JETE, i.c. reconstruction of castle Býšov in distillery, characteristic park of castle, valuation of landscape and coefficient ecological stability.

Private, working forests provide unique opportunities for biodiversity research and management. Even-aged management often creates a heterogeneous mosaic of forest stands in southeastern loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) landscapes, with stands containing structural and compositional characteristics that support different bee functional groups. Interspersion of different structural conditions, combined with roads separating adjacent stands, leads to prevalence of edges across much of the landscape, which may have varying effects on bee species. I evaluated how landscape heterogeneity and presence of edge influences functional diversity in wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) communities during the summers of 2022 and 2023. Open conditions within early successional stands and along stand edges, with more floral diversity and exposed bare soil for nesting, benefit the overall bee community, though some species respond differently due to differences in their nesting strategies. The heterogeneous mosaic of working pine forests thus have the potential to support diverse bee communities.

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Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Geography / Douglas G. Goodin / Hantaviruses are zoonotic, RNA viruses that are harbored by muroid rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae. While the virus is endemic, and mostly non-symptomatic in its rodent reservoirs, when humans contact the virus it can result in serious disease. My purpose in this dissertation is to investigate the effect that landscape patterns and land cover condition can have on pathogen prevalence in a hantavirus reservoir species (Akodon montensis) within the Atlantic Forest region of Eastern Paraguay and to investigate ways to analyze those patterns using remotely sensed data. The first component to this research is to test potential improvements to image classifications on land use/land cover classifications useful for the study of small mammal communities. An object-based classification produced the best results with seven classes: Forest, Wet Cerrado, Dry Cerrado, Latifundia, Minifundia, Dry Pasture, and Wet Pasture. The classified imagery was then used to assess landscape effects on the presence of hantaviral antibodies (a 'marker' for exposure to the virus) in populations of A. montensis. In the overall landscape, proximity of similar habitat patches was related to seroprevalence in Akodon. When considering only the forest class, high amount of forest, high number of forest patches, and high diversity in forest patch sizes were all associated with seroprevalence. Next, was an analysis of ways to distinguish understory density variables through the use of satellite imagery. Horizontal and vertical density in the understory has been associated with the presence of hantavirus in A. montensis. Vertical and horizontal density measurements were correlated with NDVI and the Fourth band in the Tasseled Cap transformation. Finally, I consider the relationship between small mammal community diversity and seroprevalence, and their association with NDVI. Diverse small mammal communities are associated with low hantavirus seroprevalence. Low diversity metrics and high hantavirus seroprevalence were associated with high mean NDVI values. Many aspects of landscape patterns are important to hantavirus seroprevalence in small mammal communities in Eastern Paraguay. Several of the landscape patterns important to hantavirus seroprevalence can be studied using satellite-derived data.

La conservation des zones fragiles est désormais considérée comme étant une mesure urgente à mettre en œuvre pour les stratégies nationales et intergouvernementales. Ce travail essaye d’entreprendre une approche progressive permettant de contempler une zone humide typique « Sebkhat El Kelbia ». Plusieurs lignes de recherches sont adoptées. La première se consacre à la délimitation des principaux déterminants naturels responsables de la construction paysagère de cette zone. La deuxième concerne des lectures paysagères permettant de révéler les éléments de réversibilité et d’irréversibilité des paysages. Alors que la troisième ligne de recherche met en évidence l’existence de véritables vestiges de centuriation qui couronnent la sebkha. Une recherche analytique basée sur plusieurs outils transdisciplinaires, notamment la carto-interprétation, les délimitations de zonages naturels et paysagers, la restitution archéo-paysagère démontre l’importance de la zone d’étude sur les plans écologiques, patrimonial et de ses véritables potentialités paysagères. La caractérisation des entités paysagères met en exergue la présence, dans la région du Sahel tunisien, des faciès plutôt du type « vase d’eau » et d’autres faciès du type « parcelle en mutation irréversible ». Le premier peut atteindre jusqu’à 80 % du territoire en année humide et seulement une occupation rétrécie à 10 % en année sèche. Notons, que le faciès agraire de la zone d’étude est typique comme le prouve sa traçabilité à partir de la centuriation, où des usages patrimoniaux laissent présager des savoirs faires antiques en termes de maitrise des sols, de l’eau et du végétal. L’analyse de ce territoire considéré à tort « marginal » montre que les différentes interventions (politique, forestière et agraire) interagissent entre elles et agissent d’une façon directe sur les formes de paysages et constituent un passage obligé pour toute planification et/ou une réorganisation territoriale. Des paramètres de géomédiation paysagiste sont aussi proposés, et qui s’articulent sur la densification de la végétalisation du type halophyte et fourragère en rapport avec les applications paysannes de la région. L’implication de la gestion différentielle du type hybride « arridiculture - agri-loisir d’une zone humide » sera une autre ressource pour la valorisation des territoires menacés. / Conservation of sensitive areas is now seen as an urgent measure to implement national strategies and intergovernmental organizations. This paper seeks to undertake a phased approach to contemplate a wetland typical “Sebkhat El Kelbia”. Several lines of research are adopted. The first is devoted to the delineation of the major determinants responsible for building natural landscape of this area. The second relates readings landscape to reveal elements of reversibility and irreversibility landscapes. While the third line of research highlights the existence of genuine remains of centuriation crowning the sabkha. Analytical research tools based on several transdisciplinary, including cartographic interpretation, zoning boundaries and natural landscape, restitution archaeological landscape demonstrates the importance of the study area in terms ecological heritage and its true potential landscape. Characterization of landscape entities highlights the presence in the Sahel region of Tunisia, facies rather like "water tank" and other facies type "plot irreversible change." The first can achieve up to 80% of the land in a wet year and only one occupation narrowed to 10% in a dry year. Note that the agrarian facies in the study area is typical as evidenced by its traceability from centuriation which uses proprietary suggest knowledge in terms of faires ancient masters of the soil, water and vegetation. The analysis of this territory wrongly considered "marginal" shows that different interventions (policy, forest and land) interact and act in a way direct forms of landscapes and are a must for any planning and / or a territorial reorganization. Geomediation landscape settings are also available, which are based on the densification of the halophyte vegetation type and feed applications in connection with farming in the region. The implication of the differential management of hybrid "arridiculture - agri-leisure of a wetland" is another resource for the recovery of threatened areas.

Biological processes like species interactions and patterns such as abundance and distribution observed in nature can vary depending on the scale at which the subject of interest is evaluated. Knowing that there is no single natural scale at which systems should be studied, in this thesis, I conducted a series of basic and applied ecological approaches in order to examine the phenomena that can occur at different scales of space, time, and ecological organization. Species abundances can vary over large spatial and temporal scales. By studying the habitat use of an abundant species, which uses a wide range of habitats, insights can be gained into how seascape-scales might influence population-level patterns. Similarly, temporal scales might affect the dynamics of species that have complex life cycles where migration is involved. Therefore, in the first study I used an eight-year dataset to conduct a population-level study at broader time- and seascape- scales of an abundant species in Tampa Bay, Florida. The goal of this study was to provide the first in-depth study on the habitat use of Pinfish on the eastern Gulf of Mexico and to provide insights on how seascape-scales can influence their abundance and distribution. Predator-prey interactions can be influenced by habitat at different spatial scales. In seagrass systems, blade density can provide prey refugia at local scales, which are further embedded within the seascape-scale effect of turbidity. In the second study, I used a combination of in situ field experiments and laboratory-controlled experiments to examine and separate the effects of habitat across these local and seascape scales on the relative predation rates of tethered Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboids). The broad-scale analyses indicated that population-level differences, such as abundance patterns and distribution can be influenced by temporal and spatial scales. Field- studies showed that habitat can influence ecological interactions at local- and seascape- scales. Overall, this research demonstrates the importance of using multiple spatial and temporal scale approaches when studying ecology, especially of those organisms that move over large distances and have complex life histories.

MA thesis Memory landscapes in centraleuropean literature - Galicia and Bukovina is dedicated to an analysis of the links between landscape, text, memory and cultural identity. Using cultural-semiotic and comparative approaches, it delimits and examines the mnemonic constructs that appear in German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature related to the regions. Two, mostly theoretical chapters are dedicated to the chosen approaches. The order of examined texts follows the development of mnemonic constructs, a process that takes place in all the literatures. The constructs were developed after Galicia and Bukovina ceased to be a part of one of the states. The thesis' structure is topical, each chapter includes an account of German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature. The first chapter focuses on the imaginary topography, geography and symbolic landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina. The second chapter examines the cultural identity that is anchored in the mnemonic constructs. The third chapter concentrates on various myths, constructs and literary phenomena that contributed to the image of Galicia and Bukovina as memory landscapes.