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Emerging patterns in the landscape

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Landscapes are complicated systems that show many different patterns according to the scale of resolution and the components towards which the investigation is directed.

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Farina, A. (1998). Emerging patterns in the landscape. In: Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8984-0_5

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