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Regional and Continental-Scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern

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Landscape patterns vary widely across Earth’s surface as a result of both anthropogenic and natural causes. This variation among landscapes can be quantified by using a large number of metrics developed to capture distinctive qualities of spatial pattern. An informed understanding of pattern–process relationships involves landscape comparisons among and within regions. Despite many advances in landscape pattern analysis, informed selection of landscapes for studying pattern–process relationships in real-world situations remains challenging. This lab explores these challenges with objectives designed to enable students to.

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  1. McGill University, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Jeffrey A. Cardille

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Monica G. Turner

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  1. University of British Columbia, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Zoology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Monica G. Turner

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Cardille, J.A., Turner, M.G. (2017). Regional and Continental-Scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern. In: Gergel, S., Turner, M. (eds) Learning Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6374-4_10

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