Landscape Ecology

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Landscape ecology is the study of spatial patterns in the landscape and their effects on ecological processes. Of critical importance is how we define a landscape, and the scale at which it is studied.

• Climate-vegetation interactions (Moody, Winters, Xiao)
• Effects of land use on vegetation and community structure (Costanza, Moody)
• Facilitating species migration through improved landscape connectivity (Handel, Winters)
• Interplay between landscape structure/scale and range dynamics (Berk)
• Landscape-disturbance interactions (Costanza)