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In this chapter our aim is to first provide restoration practitioners (RPs) with an overview of landscape function analysis (LFA) and then with a description of those indicators that they can use to characterize how a landscape is structurally (spatially) and functionally organized. Here we only briefly describe these landscape organization indicators (LOI) because detailed descriptions are provided in a LFA LOI document available online ( http://members.iinet.net.au/∼1fa_procedures). Also available online are LFA field data sheets and spreadsheets we refer to in this, and later, chapters.
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Tongway, D.J., Ludwig, J.A. (2011). Landscape Function Analysis: An Overview and Landscape Organization Indicators. In: Restoring Disturbed Landscapes. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-007-1_13
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