When it gets really cold, what happens to your body? First you start shivering. Then,…
Tag: landscape
Landscape ecology has evolved specifically because of certain phenomena that are unique to the scale…
Why are floodplains important to human civilizations? What makes them such a unique landscape?
Alpha diversity is the species diversity present within each ecosystem on a landscape. Beta diversity is represented by the species diversity between any two communities. Gamma diversity of is the species diversity across the entire landscape, taken as one unit.
Patches in landscapes behave like islands in the ocean. This concept is described in the theory of island biogeography, which has applications in restoration and conservation of ecosystems.
The Earth and nature have survived for so long because for most part, they have…
What’s beautiful (and horrible to a person with OCD) about a landscape is the diversity…