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    This document discusses key concepts in landscape ecology including landscapes made up of patches with borders and edges, how island biogeography and corridors impact species diversity, and how disturbance shapes landscapes. Patch size and shape, as well as disturbance intensity, scale, and frequency, are crucial to understanding landscape mosaics. Geographic information systems provide a powerful tool for studying landscape patterns.

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    This document discusses key concepts in landscape ecology including landscapes made up of patches with borders and edges, how island biogeography and corridors impact species diversity, and how disturbance shapes landscapes. Patch size and shape, as well as disturbance intensity, scale, and frequency, are crucial to understanding landscape mosaics. Geographic information systems provide a powerful tool for studying landscape patterns.

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    Landscape ecology

    Outline:
    Landscapes
    Borders and edges, fragmentation, patch size, diversity

    Island biogeography
    Corridors
    Disturbance
    Readings: Chapters 19

    A mosaic of patches

    Borders between patches

    Indigo bunting

    Patch size and shape crucial to species diversity

    woodland

    grassland

    Theory of island biogeography

    Theory of island biogeography

    Corridors

    butterfly

    Disturbance shapes landscapes

    Disturbance
    regime
    Intensity
    Scale
    Frequency

    Landscapes are shifting mosaics

    Geographic information systems:


    powerful tool to study landscapes

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