Landscape ecology, if not ecology in general, is largely founded on the notion that environmental patterns strongly influence ecological processes [32].The habitats in which organisms live, for example, are spatially structured at a number of scales, and these
patterns interact with organism perception and behavior to drive the higher-level processes of population dynamics and community structure [14]. A disruption in landscape patterns may therefore compromise this structure’s functional integrity by interfering with critical ecological processes necessary for population persistence and the maintenance of biodiversity
and ecosystem health [36]. For these and other reasons, much emphasis has been placed on developing methods to quantify landscape patterns, which is considered a prerequisite to the study of pattern–process relationships (e.g. [1, 23, 26, 33], and [34]). This has resulted in the development of literally hundreds of indices of landscape patterns.
Landscape ecology, if not ecology in general, is largely founded on the notion that environmental patterns strongly influence ecological processes [32].The habitats in which organisms live, for example, are spatially structured at a number of scales, and thesepatterns interact with organism perception and behavior to drive the higher-level processes of population dynamics and community structure [14]. A disruption in landscape patterns may therefore compromise this structure’s functional integrity by interfering with critical ecological processes necessary for population persistence and the maintenance of biodiversityand ecosystem health [36]. For these and other reasons, much emphasis has been placed on developing methods to quantify landscape patterns, which is considered a prerequisite to the study of pattern–process relationships (e.g. [1, 23, 26, 33], and [34]). This has resulted in the development of literally hundreds of indices of landscape patterns.
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