eco FINALLLL pt 5

• europe

  fine scale

  qualitative

  dom urban working anthro ecosystems

  GIS

  rural planning

  North America

  coarse

  quantitative

  wildland

  gis

  biological conservation forest management
• patch

  abrupt trasntion: edge

  gradual transtiion: ecotone

  elongated patch= larger area as ecotone
• corridors linear features like streams or roads

  CONNECTIVITY OF ORGANISMS

  CAN INCREASE CONNECTIVITY OR BE AN OBSTACLE depending on organism
• mosaic

  pathces of everything

  affected by topography climate disturbance and sucessiomn
• patch dynamics

  repeated patchy disturbances like fires cause large local changes but structure is constant

  highways = corridors for invasive obstacle for animals
• ice age = mega scale

  meso = landscape ecology

  micro = waves on shore