Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography
series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping …

Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These
computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population …

Concepts of spatial scale, such as extent, grain, resolution, range, footprint, support and
cartographic ratio are not interchangeable. Because of the potential confusion among the …

Scale is a central concept in the geographical sciences and is an intrinsic property of many
spatial systems. It also serves as an essential thread in the fabric of many other physical and …

Fire has had a major role in shaping the forested landscapes of the American West. In recent
decades, major efforts to quantify that role have been made, and characteristics of historic …

Deforestation and colonization in Amazônia have attracted substantial attention. This article
focuses on an area of 3,000 km 2 within the Brazilian State of Rondônia. Two adjacent …

Uno de los fenomenos naturales mas estudiados por los ecologos es el incremento gradual
que se observa en el numero de especies (animales y vegetales) a lo largo de cualquier …

Deforestation and colonization processes within the Brazilian Amazon have attracted
substantial attention since the early 1970s. The phenomenon has been associated with …

XPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY LIES WITHIN THE SPECTRUM OF ECOLOGICAL methodology,
a continuum that runs from passive observation to pure thought (ie, theoretical abstractions …

CALE HAS BEEN CALLED “THE NEW FRONTIER OF ECOLOGY”(Allen and Roberts 1998).
Yet Kareiva (1994) referred to space as ecology's final frontier, and Klomp and Lunt (1997) …