Scaling up local population dynamics to regional scales : an integrated approach : [Poster]
In semi-arid savannas, unsustainable land use can lead to degradation of entire landscapes, e.g. in the form of shrub encroachment. This leads to habitat loss and is assumed to reduce species diversity. In BIOTA phase 1, we investigated the effects of land use on population dynamics on farm scale. I...
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Universität Potsdam
2006
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7320 http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/732/ |
| Summary: | In semi-arid savannas, unsustainable land use can lead to degradation of entire landscapes, e.g. in the form of shrub encroachment. This leads to habitat loss and is assumed to reduce species diversity. In BIOTA phase 1, we investigated the effects of land use on population dynamics on farm scale. In phase 2 we scale up to consider the whole regional landscape consisting of a diverse mosaic of farms with different historic and present land use intensities. This mosaic
creates a heterogeneous, dynamic pattern of structural diversity at a large spatial scale. Understanding how the region-wide dynamic land use pattern affects the abundance of animal and plant species requires the integration of processes on large as well as on small spatial scales. In our multidisciplinary
approach, we integrate information from remote sensing, genetic and ecological field studies as well as small scale process models in a dynamic region-wide simulation tool.
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Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Musterdynamik und Angewandte Fernerkundung<br>
Workshop vom 9. - 10. Februar 2006. |
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