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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 | |