Concepts of Scale in Landscape Ecology

This chapter seeks to evaluate the degree to which issues of spatial scale and scaling problems have been incorporated into different research problems in landscape ecology and to identify research methods applicable to problems of spatial scale. Then, the study identifies research foci in which scale has been relatively little explored, in part to determine if some questions have been largely divorced from questions of scale or whether appropriate conceptual or methodological approaches are lacking. The results may shed some light on to what degree, and in what subdisciplines within landscape ecology, the “paradigm shift” noted by Golley (1989) has been embraced. Finally, a standard vocabulary is proposed for issues of scale in the field of Landscape Ecology.

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