Section 1 Introduction. - 1. Landscape Ecology: State of the Art. - 2. Scale Effects in Landscape Studies. - Section 2 Disturbances in the Landscape. - 3. Landscape Ecology and Air Pollution. - 4. Parasites Lightning and the Vegetation Mosaic in Wilderness Landscapes. - 5. Fire Grazing and the Landscape Heterogeneity of a Georgia Barrier Island. - 6. Disturbance by Beaver (Castor canadensis Kuhl) and Increased Landscape Heterogeneity. - 7. Suppression of Natural Disturbance: Long-Term Ecological Change on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. - 8. Vegetation Dynamics in a Southern Wisconsin Agricultural Landscape. - Section 3 Implications for Landscape Management. - 9. Landscape Restoration in Response to Previous Disturbance. - 10. Patch-Within-Patch Restoration of Man-Modified Landscapes Within Texas State Parks. - 11. Progressiveness Among Farmers as a Factor in Heterogeneity of Farmed Landscapes. - Section 4 Conclusion. - 12. The Ethics of Isolation the Spread of Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Language: English