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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Integrating Pattern, Process, and Scale | |
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Homage to St. Michael; or, Why Are There So Many Books on Scale? | |
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Pattern, Process, and the Analysis of Spatial Scales | |
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The Landscape "Level" Is Dead: Persuading the Family to Take It Off the Respirator | |
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A Hierarchical View of Habitat and Its Relationship to Species Abundance | |
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Interpreting Multiple Scales in Ecological Systems | |
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Paleoecological Perspectives on Ecological Scale | |
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Space and Time in the Soil Landscape: The Ill-Defined Ecological Universe | |
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Ecosystem Organization Across a Continuum of Scales: A Comparative Analysis of Lakes and Rivers | |
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Historical Contingency and Multiple Scales of Dynamics Within Plant Communities | |
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Spatial Scaling and Animal Population Dynamics | |
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Time, Space, and Beyond: Scale Issues in Food-Web Research | |
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Defining Ecologically Relevant Change in the Process of Scaling Up: Implications for Monitoring at the "Landscape" Level | |
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Moving Across Scales: Ecological Inference and Applications | |
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Applied Scaling Theory | |
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Remote Sensing Applications in Ecosystem Analysis | |
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Field Studies of Large Mobile Organisms: Scale, Movement, and Habitat Utilization | |
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Scaling and Integration in Trees | |
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From Forest Stands to Landscapes: Spatial Scales and the Roles of Disturbances | |
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Incorporating Scale in Ecological Experiments: Study Design | |
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Incorporating Scale in Ecological Experiments: Data Analysis | |
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Incorporating Scale Concepts in Ecological Applications | |
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Measuring Environmental Change | |
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Managing Ecological Systems and Processes | |
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Relationships of Scale to Policy and Decision Making | |
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Dimensions of Scale in Ecology, Resource Management, and Society | |
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References | |
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Contributors | |
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Index | |