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Concepts of Scale in Landscape Ecology

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This chapter seeks to evaluate the degree to which issues of spatial scale and scaling problems have been incorporated into different research problems in landscape ecology and to identify research methods applicable to problems of spatial scale. Then, the study identifies research foci in which scale has been relatively little explored, in part to determine if some questions have been largely divorced from questions of scale or whether appropriate conceptual or methodological approaches are lacking. The results may shed some light on to what degree, and in what subdisciplines within landscape ecology, the “paradigm shift” noted by Golley (1989) has been embraced. Finally, a standard vocabulary is proposed for issues of scale in the field of Landscape Ecology.

The number of distinct scales of length of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite.

Mandelbrot 1982, p. 1

Kuhn's concept of a paradigm shift is a useful way to interpret the annual meeting [1988] of the ESA… Every symposium or session I attended featured, included, or was structured by the concepts of scale and spatial patterns. I left feeling I had observed one of those rare creatures of the intellectual bestiary, a paradigm shift. Why should we suddenly be interested in spatial patterns, and problems of shifting spatial scale?

F. Golley 1989, Vol. 3, pp. 65-66

“It is impossible to know yet whether the sudden expansion of interest in’ scale’ in population and community ecology is a passing fashion, or the beginning of an enduring change in the way that ecological research is pursued.”

Schneider 1994, p. 1

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Withers, M.A., Meentemeyer, V. (1999). Concepts of Scale in Landscape Ecology. In: Klopatek, J.M., Gardner, R.H. (eds) Landscape Ecological Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0529-6_11

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