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Scale-Sensitive Ecological Properties: Historical Context, Current Meaning

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Wildlife and Landscape Ecology

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In landscape ecology, attention to scale is most important (Wiens 1989). Indeed Levin (1992)has argued that the “problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology”. A Special Features section in the journal Ecologywith the title “Space: the final frontier for ecological theory” (Kareiva 1994) echoed the same theme. Clearly, the choice of appropriate time and space scales is important if understanding in ecology is to advance (Bissonette 1996). This issue is central to current dialog in landscape ecology (Golley 1989, Kareiva 1994) because different patterns and properties tend to emerge at different scales (May 1994).

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