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It is the purpose of this chapter to examine the extent to which conservation programs have been structured to provide the heterogeneity needed to sustain an organism, community or ecosystem. It is apparent that, at this point in time, very few attempts have yet been made. The reason for the gap between concepts and their application is because theoretical and empirical studies in this whole area have developed only very recently. It is often not clear just which concepts should be incorporated in a particular conservation program, especially when little is known about the autecology of the target species. The conservation programs are applied in either highly fragmented and/or human disturbed landscapes in which the natural heterogeneity has been replaced by a heterogeneity that differs temporally, spatially and in scale. The effects of these changes on ecosystem functions and the responses of organisms to these different landscape patterns are often equally unknown.
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Arnold, G.W. (1995). Incorporating landscape pattern into conservation programs. In: Hansson, L., Fahrig, L., Merriam, G. (eds) Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0717-4_13
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