X Duning, L Xiuzhe - Acta Ecologica Sinica, 1997 - europepmc.org
In Landscape Ecology, landscape means a cluster of interacting ecosystems which appear as spatial land mosaics. Therefore, the main point of Landscape Ecology is to study the …
▪ Abstract Landscape ecology focuses on the reciprocal interactions between spatial pattern and ecological processes, and it is well integrated with ecology. The field has grown rapidly …
The description and analysis of landscape patterns became a central research issue in landscape ecology with the emergence of the pattern-process hypothesis (Turner and …
RTT Forman, M Godron - BioScience, 1981 - academic.oup.com
Landscapes as ecological units with structure and function are composed primarily of patches in a matrix. Patches differ fundamentally in origin and dynamics, while size, shape …