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The geographical dimensions of landscapes require the collection and the processes of the geometric attributes of patches like perimeters, shape, size, distance between other elements, fractal dimension, etc.

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Farina, A. (2022). Methods in Landscape Ecology. In: Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Series, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96611-9_10

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