BIO311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Landscape Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Ecosystem Management
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Focuses on the role of humans (more often than not) Creating and affecting landscape patterns and processes. Connectivity: specific arrangement of spatial elements; often used synonymously with spatial structure or patch structure. Corridor: spatial continuity of a habitat or cover type across a landscape, relatively narrow strip of a particular type that differs from the areas adjacent on both sides. Scale appearance: spatial or temporal dimension of an object or process characterized by both grain and extent. Landscape ecology as a discipline has two evolutionary lines which might be caricatured as the european school (represented in the us and elsewhere) and the american school (common in australia and elsewhere). The first definition is the landscape science view. Landscape ecology is the study of the complex interactions between biocoenoses (ecological communities) and environmental conditions at a specific landscape patch (this is planning science perspective)
