ENVS 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wet Meadow, Organism
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Understanding landscape pattern involves recognizing and understanding landscape structure in relation to heterogeneity. Need to recognize it the landscape before you are able to interpreter it. Landscape structure can be thought of over archingly as networks of patches and corridors within a matrix. Different eco systems: don valley and humber valley. In a more precise sense landscape structure is the distribution of energy, materials, and species in relation to the sizes, shapes, numbers, kinds and configurations of landscape elements and ecosystems. Might miss interpret structure not being a type of process. Materials given to use to make different structures. All connect together ecosystems; cannot work without the functions. *note: see things separately; they are all interconnected together. In landscape pattern, the focus is on the overarching structure of matrix and network. Magnify structure both things change in relations to . Largest landscape the matrix (the largest area) Img: the agricultural landscape the field. Img: the river the wet meadow.