Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

LAS 452
Ecosystem and
Landscape Ecology

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

COURSE CONTENTS
PART 1
Week 1
PART 2
Week 2

: INTRODUCTION
Introduction & Definitions
: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM ( 5 WEEKS)
The study of nature system
The structure of Natural system
The Biosphere Biomes & Aquatic Life Zones

Week 3

What is Ecosystem
Biotic & A biotic
Ecosystem functions
Food chain & Food Web
Tropic level
Nutrient, Carbon & nitrogen cycle

Week 4

Soil Science
Understanding Soil
Soil Profile

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Week 2

Week 5

WEEK 5 : - SEMESTER BREAK - assignment 1

Week 6

Ecosystem Resilience
Natural Succession
Primary & secondary
Human Impact on Ecosystem

Week 7

Natural resource
Renewable & non renewable
Climate & weather

Week 8

Biodiversity
Water resource
Mineral resource

PART 3
Week 9

CONCEPT LINGKAGES IN ECOLOGY

Concept linkages in Ecology
Forest , Wetland & Aquatic Ecosystem
Landfill & Dumpsite

W eek 3

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Week 10 Natural & Man Made Disturbance
Deforestation
Agriculture
Human system : population
Land development
Hazardous & solid waste
Week 11 Implications of Disturbance
Urban Heat island
Global air pollution
Exploitation of wetland
Week 12 Marine & freshwater pollution
Groundwater contamination
Climate change
Ozone Depletion
PART 4
Sustainable System
Week 13 Creating A Sustainable System with Ecological Approach
Principle of sustainable
Sustainable ethics
Environmental Law & Government
PART 5
Week 14 Selected contributors
Week 15 Presentation & Submission
Week 16 EXAM WEEK

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Definitions & terminologies :

LANDSCAPE
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENT
ECOSYSTEM
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY

1. Landscape is an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
2. A picture depicting an expanse of scenery
MERRIAM WEBSTER
1. A picture representing a view of natural inland scenery
2. The art of depicting such scenery
3. The landforms of a region in the aggregate
4. A portion of territory that can be viewed at one time from one place

Landscapes?
Natural

Man-created
Man-made

ECOLOGIST
Landscape is a group of interacting ecosystem

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape?

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape?

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape?

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape?

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape?

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

Department of Landscape Architecture, UiTM

LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Landscape Architecture?
DICTIONARY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
The art and science of creating open air space
as environment for human life
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTS (ASLA)
The art and science of analysis, planning and design
management, preservation and rehabilitation
of the land
WIKIPEDIA
The art, planning, design, management, preservation
and rehabilitation of the land and the design
of human-made constructs
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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What is Ecosystem?

An ecological community together

with its environment, functioning
as unit.

Any situation where there is

interaction between organism and
their environment

A functional system that includes an

ecological community of organisms together
with the physical environment, interacting as
a unit

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Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The study of the relationship of organisms to their physical
environment and to one another

AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY

1.

What is Ecology?

The science of the relationship between organisms and

their environment
2. The relationship between organisms and their
environment

INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES (IES)

The scientific study of the processes influencing the
distribution and abundance of organisms, the interactions
among organisms, and their interactions between organisms
and the transformation and flux of energy and matters

ERNST HAECKEL
The study of the relationship of organisms
with their environment

DANIAL CHIRAS
The study of natural systems. A study of living organisms
and the web of relationships that binds all of us
together in nature

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The study of how landscape structure
(pattern) affects (the processes that
Determine) the abundance &
distribution of organisms.

What is Landscape Ecology?

Examine processes and relationship

across multiple ecosystem or
very large geographic area.
US WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
SOCIETY
The study of how ecosystem are
arranged and how their arrangements
affects the wildlife and environmental
conditions that compose them.

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LAR 452: ECOSYSTEM & LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Introduction to Landscape
Architecture by Michael Laurie

Landscape

Ecosystem

Landscape
Architecture

Ecology
&
Landscape
Ecology

Landscape Architecture:
A manual of site planning
& design by John Ormsbee
Simonds

Ecological landscape design

&
Planning by Makhzoumi

Design with Nature by

Ian McHarg
Principles and methods in
Landscape Ecology by Almo
Farina

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology