Joe Kacabell Sites<br/>Provincial regulatory bodies are members of a national organization, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects / L'Association des Architectes Paysagistes du Canada, and individual membership in the CSLA/AAPC is obtained through joining one of the provincial or territorial components.<wbr/><br/><wbr/><br/>The<wbr/>UK’s professional body is the Landscape Institute. It is a chartered body which accredits landscape professionals and university courses. At present there are fifteen accredited schools in the UK. Membership of the LI is available to students, academics and professionals Landscape Architects and there are over 3000 professionally quaified members.<wbr/><br/><wbr/><br/>Joe<wbr/>Kacabell Business :The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) provides professional recognition for landscape architects. Once recognised, landscape architects use the title ‘Registered Landscape Architect’.<wbr/><br/><wbr/><br/>Across<wbr/>the eight states and territories within Australia, there is a mix of requirements for landscape architects to be ‘Registered’. Generally there is no clear legislative registration requirement in place. Any regulations or requirements are state based, not national.<wbr/><br/><wbr/><br/>JoeKacabell<wbr/><br/>Applied<wbr/>to landscape ecology, composition refers to the number of patch types (see below) represented on a landscape and their relative abundance. For example, the amount of forest or wetland, the length of forest edge, or the density of roads can be aspects of landscape composition. Structure is determined by the composition, the configuration, and the proportion of different patches across the landscape, while function refers to how each element in the landscape interacts based on its life cycle events. Pattern is the term for the contents and internal order of a heterogeneous area of land.<wbr/><br/><wbr/><br/>Landscape<wbr/>scientists have specialist skills such as soil science, hydrology, geomorphology or botany that they relate to the practical problems of landscape work. Their projects can range from site surveys to the ecological assessment of broad areas for planning or manage