I'm ignorant, of course, but this post helps--thanks. The website I
consulted (apparently highly reputable) was very confusing to me, and if it
was about ecology, I've got a lot more learning to do than I had feared.
Maybe I'm losing my grip? I don't understand how spatial patterning itself
affects ecological processes, but something about the description seems to
make sense. It seems something like geography, but I'm not sure whether
"spatial patterning" refers to anthropogenic activity, other allogenic
effects, or autogenic changes and the resulting patterns. I don't know
whether my problem is failing to see what's going on at a large enough
scales or whether I've been taking something for granted that is vitally
important. Now I've got to figure out how it is.
Thanks for opening my eyes to something new--I've heard the term for some
time, but haven't paid much attention to it. It must be informing ecology in
some important way, and I need to get up to speed, at least enough to be
able to understand what that website is talking about. Maybe someone has a
better link to suggest or maybe I'm just a lost cause.
As to the "hack" comment, I shall remain respectfully silent.
WT
PS: They're kidding that the guy's name that invented landscape ecology was
Troll though, right? Maybe the site I thought was representative was a
spoof.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy K Bangert" <[email protected]>
To: "Wayne Tyson" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology Terminology Ecologist Landscape Re:
[ECOLOG-L] Marine Landscape Ecologist
Landscape ecologists often study the effects of the spatial pattern of the
land on various ecological processes. So 'landscape' does make sense since
land patterning might result from processes that 'hack' the land into
patterns?
randy
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RK Bangert,
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On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
What is a landscape ecologist?
WT
PS: "scape" comes from the root, "skep," meaning to cut or to hack.
Ironic, given the current vernacular, no?
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:42 AM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Marine Landscape Ecologist
Marine Landscape Ecologist - isn't that an oxymoron?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:12:54 -0400
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