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Patterns and process in Landscape Ecology: Physical template, biotic interactions, and disturbance regime

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Ecological processes and patterns interact at various scales across landscapes. Spatially explicit consideration of pattern and process can better inform ecological questions. This Figure Set introduces students to the variability in scales of pattern and process and to the fundamentals of Landscape Ecology. TIEE
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Resource Group Link https://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=SearchResults&F46=TIEE
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Keywords allelopathy, biotic and abiotic interactions, competition, disturbance regime, fire regime, landscape ecology, physical template, TIEE
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Pedagogical Use Description This figure set is intended for undergraduate students nearing the end of an introductory ecology course. This figure set introduces the field of Landscape Ecology by asking students: How do ecological processes and landscape patterns interact? Three sections ask students to examine how three types of drivers influence landscape pattern: the physical template, biotic interactions, and disturbance regimes. Using the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Florida Scrub as examples, students explore how landscape patterns and ecological processes interact.

The reading and exercises draw on ecological concepts students should already know; the synthesis and application of these concepts are discussed in new ways to give a spatially explicit context to understanding ecology. A glossary is supplied in the materials for students to clarify and refresh any terminology. In this Figure Set, we use the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Florida Scrub as examples to illustrate the variability in scale of pattern and process in landscapes.
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Url http://www.esa.org/tiee/vol/v10/issues/figure_sets/ficken/abstract.htm...
Full Name of Primary Author Cari Ficken
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Primary Author Affiliation University Program in Ecology, Duke University
Primary Author email cari.ficken@duke.edu
Secondary Author Name(s) Megan Fork, and Matthew Fuller
Secondary Author Affiliation(s) Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
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Submitter Name Teresa Mourad
Submitter Email teresa@esa.org
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Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection Off
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Date Of Record Submission 2015-01-21
I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use No
Date Of Record Release 2015-01-21 13:52:08
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Date Last Modified 2018-07-30 11:19:04
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