In the Mediterranean Basin, landscape patterns are strongly human-modified. In recent decades, because of industrialisation and rural exodus, many fields have been abandoned, generating changes in the ...

Research Triangle Park, NC--The size, shape, and arrangement of fields, forests, wetlands, and human populations, and the ways these and other features interact and change across landscapes, have a ...

Landscapes are strongly shaped by the degree of interaction between pattern and process. This paper examines how ecological memory, the degree to which an ecological process is shaped by its past ...

Incorporating factors such as urban geographical location, topographic features, and climatic context, the study established a socioeconomic multiple regression model based on urban landscape patterns ...

Research findings suggest that alternative stable states can be maintained through biotic mechanisms, such as root traits, in addition to the commonly understood abiotic factors like climate. This ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically ...

A part from enhancing aesthetics, patterns in the landscape can meet functional needs as well. They can be used for directing movement or defining special use areas within the garden. But the power of ...