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Focused Assessment of Scale-Dependent Vegetation Pattern

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Ecological processes frequently occur at multiple spatial scales simultaneously. For example, fires imprint the landscape at a variety of spatial scales, from small areas of high burn intensity due to patchy surface fuels, to large stands within fires that escape conflagration entirely (Fig. 7.1). These types of complex disturbances can increase environmental heterogeneity and thus species diversity by creating a variety­ of microhabitats and by increasing patch diversity (Romme and Knight 1982; Christensen 1985; Denslow 1985; Pickett and White 1985; Turner et al. 1998). The flow of organisms, genes, and populations provides another excellent example of scale-dependent ecological processes (see Chap. 8).

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Y. Wiersma and three anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Field data were collected in the HJA as part of NSF awards IBN-9652656 and DEB-0108191. We thank the small army of field assistants that helped gather data for both of the case studies. The prescribed fire research would not have been possible without colleagues at USGS and NPS: N. Stephenson, J. Keeley, E. Knapp, E. Ballenger, T. Caprio, M. Keifer, and B. Jacobs.

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Lookingbill, T.R., Rocca, M.E., Urban, D.L. (2011). Focused Assessment of Scale-Dependent Vegetation Pattern. In: Drew, C., Wiersma, Y., Huettmann, F. (eds) Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7390-0_7

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