Landscape ecology is the scientific discipline of studying and ameliorating the relationship between spacial pattern and ecological processes on a concourse of landscape scales and organizational degrees. As a extremely interdisciplinary endeavor, landscape ecology incorporates biophysical and deductive approaches with humanistic and holistic positions across natural and social sciences (Goodway Landscape).

Landscapes are spatially heterogeneous geographical areas qualified by various interacting patches or ecosystems, browsing from comparatively natural terrestrial and aquatic systems such as timberlands, grasslands and lakes to human-dominated environments admitting agricultural and urban settings (Goodway Landscape).

The most salient characteristics of landscape ecology are its stress on the kinship among process, patternand scale and its focus on broad-scale ecological and environmental issues. These demand the coupling between biophysical and socioeconomic sciences. Key inquiry topics in landscape ecology admit ecological flows in landscape mosaics, scaling, land use and land cover change, relating landscape pattern analysis with ecological processes, and landscape preservation and sustainability (Jeff Zima).