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ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS
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Structure & pattern |
Function
& process | Change
& dynamics | Management
implications
Structure
| Features
| Patches
| Formation | Characterisitics
| Scale | Geometry
| Types | Matrix
| Corridors | Measurements
| Appearance | Complexity
Patches
are formed as a result of complex interactions between physical, biological
and anthropogenic
processes (Turner
et al., 1991). Underlying landscape features such as climate, terrain, soil,
water and biota interact with disturbance to form a hierarchy of patches of
different size and origin.
This will be discussed in more detail in the section on Landscape
Change and Dynamics
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