Patches and Structural Components for a Landscape Ecology
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 31 (10) , 733-740
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308780
Abstract
Landscapes as ecological units with structure and function are composed primarily of patches in a matrix. Patches differ fundamentally in origin andKeywords
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