Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- PART 1: CONCEPTUAL AND QUANTITATIVE LINKAGES: Linking landscape patterns to biological reality / John A. Bissonette -- Linkages between landscape theory and population dynamics: a review of the empirical evidence / Therese M. Donovan and Allan M. Strong -- The rest of the story: linking top-down effects to organisms / James G. Sanderson and Larry D. Harris -- The problem with linking scales in the use of indicator species in conservation biology / Ilse Storch and John A. bissonette -- Linking fitness landscapes with the behavior and distribution of animals / Michael S. Mitchell and Roger A. Powell -- Implications of body mass patterns: linking ecological structure and process to wildlife conservation and management / Thomas, C. Edwards, Jr., Gretchen G. Moisen, Tracey S. Frescino, and Joshua J. Lawler -- PART 2: LINKING PEOPLE, LAND USE, AND LANDSCAPE VALUES: Human stewardship in ecological mosaics: linking people to landscape dynamics / Almo Farina -- Reconciling the linkages of land management with natural disturbance regimes to maintain forest biodiversity in Europe / Per Angelstam -- Landscape ecology, wildlife management, and conservation in Northern Australia: linking policy, practice, and capability in regional planning / Peter J. Whithead, John C. Z. Woinarski, Donald Franklin, and Owen Price -- Habitat models to link situation evaluation and planning support in agricultural landscapes / Alfred Schultz {et al.} -- A park is not an island: linking different wildlife management strategies in the area of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda / Christiane Averbeck -- PART 3: LINKING THEORY AND APPLICATION: CASE STUDIES: Linking a multiscale habitat concept to species conservation / Ilse Storch -- Landscape history: linking conservation approaches for large mammals / David S. Maehr, John J. Cox, and Jeffrey L. Larkin -- Giant otters in the the Peruvian rainforest: linking protected area conditions to species needs / Christof Schenck {et al.} -- Linking landscape management with the conservation of grassland birds in Wisconsin / David W. Sample, Christine Ribic, and Rosalind B. Renfrew -- Foraging by herbivores: linking the biochemical diversity of plants to herbivore culture and landscape diversity / Frederick D. Provenza, Juan J. Villalba, and John P. Bryant.