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Seagrass Ecology: New Contributions from a Landscape Perspective

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SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION

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Landscape ecology is the study of processes occurring across spatially heterogeneous mosaics and the biotic responses to the resulting pattern. Spatial mosaics are made up of structural elements, biotic, and/or abiotic, which produce a set of patches set in a homogeneous matrix. Quantitative analyses of spatial and temporal patterns resulting from patch dynamics form the basis of landscape ecology. A landscape is larger than an individual’s immediately observable area (Allen, 1998) and landscape studies typically address heterogeneity at very large spatial scales relative to the organism or process of interest.

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    Susan S. Bell

  2. Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, NOS, NOAA, Applied Spatial Ecology Team, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

    Mark S. Fonseca

  3. Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-5200, USA

    Nathaniel B. Stafford

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Bell, S.S., Fonseca, M.S., Stafford, N.B. (2007). Seagrass Ecology: New Contributions from a Landscape Perspective. In: SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_26

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