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Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes

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Spatially explicit ecological models offer numerous surprises, ranging from intricate tapestries of spatial patterning to widespread extinction when roads or deforestation fracture a landscape. Many of the gloomier examples involve thresholds, the approach to which would be hard to anticipate with standard census data. The challenge is in making a constructive management tool from these abstract harbingers of ecological disruption.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Peter Kareiva

  2. Department of Biology, Linkoping University, S-581 83, Linkoping, Sweden

    Uno Wennergren

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Kareiva, P., Wennergren, U. Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes. Nature 373, 299–302 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373299a0

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