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Introduction to Landscape Ecology and Scale
Monica G. Turner,Robert H. Gardner +1 more
- 01 Jan 2015
- pp 1-32
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TL;DR: Landscape ecology focuses on the relationships between spatial pattern and ecological processes as discussed by the authors, and has been widely embraced and assimilated in many branches of ecology, such as biology, ecology, and management.
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Abstract: Landscape ecology focuses on the relationships between spatial pattern and ecological processes. From its emergence as a coherent area of research and application in the 1980s, the concepts, theory, and methods of landscape ecology have matured. Its central themes have been widely embraced and assimilated in many branches of ecology. Some authors (e.g., Wiens 2002) have even suggested that landscape ecology catalyzed a paradigm shift in ecology. Whether or not such a shift occurred (sensu Kuhn 1996) has been a great topic for spirited discussion, but there is no doubt that landscape ecology has influenced the way scientists and managers think about the environment. Interest in landscape studies remains fueled by many factors, especially the critical need to understand the rapid, broad scale, and profound changes that are happening all around us.
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