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Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change

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العنوان: Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change
المؤلفون: Brudvig, LA, Leroux, SJ, Albert, CH, Bruna, EM, Davies, KF, Ewers, RM, Levey, DJ, Pardini, R, Resasco, J
المساهمون: Commission of the European Communities
المصدر: 84 ; 74
بيانات النشر: Wiley
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Imperial College London: Spiral
مصطلحات موضوعية: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, HABITAT FRAGMENTATION RESEARCH, FOREST FRAGMENTATION, SPECIES DISTRIBUTION, LAND-USE, COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY, AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES, HELICONIA-ACUMINATA, CONTINUUM MODEL, FAUNA RESEARCH, COSTA-RICA, 0501 Ecological Applications, 0502 Environmental Science And Management, 0602 Ecology
الوصف: A variety of landscape models are used to conceptualize and interpret human impacts on ecosystems and their biodiversity. The simplest, a ‘patch-matrix’ model, is rooted in island biogeography theory and assumes a dichotomy between generic, easily-defined habitat patches and a surrounding matrix that is completely inhospitable. This dichotomy between patch and matrix habitats has been recently relaxed, with the ‘continuum’ model taking this relaxation to its extreme and logical endpoint – a species-based model with no a priori definition of habitat or matrix, but rather focusing on ecological gradients. Yet, because few empirical comparisons of these bookending models exist, we lack understanding of their relative utility or the merits of hybrid approaches that combine attributes of patch-matrix and continuum models. To guide such considerations, we first develop a decision-making framework for the application of patch-matrix, continuum, and hybrid models. The framework takes into account study objectives, attributes of the landscape, and species traits. We then evaluate this framework by empirically comparing how continuum, patch-matrix, and hybrid models explain beetle distributions across two contrasting fragmented landscapes, for species differing in trophic level and habitat specificity. Within the Hope River Forest Fragmentation Project, a system with strong landscape contrast and distinct (‘hard’) structural edges between forest fragments and grassland, we find broad support for hybrid models, particularly those incorporating surrounding landscape structure. Conversely, within the Wog Wog Habitat Fragmentation Experiment, a system with weak landscape contrast and ‘soft’ structural edges between natural and plantation forest, we find co-support for continuum and hybrid models. We find no support in either system for patch-matrix, relative to continuum and hybrid models. We conclude by considering key questions and areas of research for advancing the application of models to understand species responses and ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0906-7590
العلاقة: Ecography; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52539Test; https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02543Test; 281986
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02543
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02543Test
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52539Test
حقوق: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Brudvig, L. A., Leroux, S. J., Albert, C. H., Bruna, E. M., Davies, K. F., Ewers, R. M., Levey, D. J., Pardini, R. and Resasco, J. (2017), Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change. Ecography, 40: 74–84. , which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02543Test. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.2F432801
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:09067590
DOI:10.1111/ecog.02543