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The focus for landscape ecology

Landscape ecology focuses on three characteristics of landscapes:

• Structure - spatial relationships between landscape elements, also called 'pattern'.
  
  
• Function - the interaction between spatial elements. Function also refers to the processes that operate within the landscape.
  
  
• Change - the alteration of structure and function over time.

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