Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes

Spatially explicit ecological models offer numerous surprises, ranging from intricate tapestries of spatial patterning to widespread extinction when roads or deforestation fracture a landscape. Many of the gloomier examples involve thresholds, the approach to which would be hard to anticipate with standard census data. The challenge is in making a constructive management tool from these abstract harbingers of ecological disruption.

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