¶ … extending landscape ecology principles and applications into aquatic environments. The insights that may be gained by natural resource managers and decision makers. Landscape ecology deals with the spatial influence and impact of matter on ecological processes. Its consideration focuses on the ecological influence of the location of a certain object, the ecological influence of this object in relation to other (not necessarily similar) objects, and the influence of this relationship and its impact with others across various spaces and various periods in history.

Landscape ecology has generally focused on terrestrial matter as its occupation with water (such s rivers and streams) consisting of a subcomponent of the terrestrial system). Wiens (2002), however argues that the principles f landscape ecology can, as equally, be applied to the study of aquatic systems and that, therefore, landscape ecology can be used to great advantage to promote and expand the study of landscape ecology.

The six principles of landscape ecology are the following: (1) patches...

All of these themes apply equally to aquatic entities as they do to terrestrial, and whilst riverine landscapes differ from land landscapes in various ways, differences are not that significant those applications cannot be extended from one to the other. In fact, the water that links riverine elements may, because of its density and viscosity, make it an ideal setting for landscape principles to be investigated and applied in. By seeing rivers as landscapes, landscape ecology can both contribute to aquatic ecology as can aquatic ecology, in turn, contribute to landscape ecology. In this way, both fields can be expanded.
Fausch et al. (2002) use the principles of landscape ecology to argue for a better conservation of stream fishes. Much of aquatic observation, they argue, comes from the limited raw eye that sees only a portion of the riverbed at one time, rather than possessing the continuous view of…