Here are some references that may be useful. This is biased toward the plant ecology literature.
Bell, G. et al. 1993. The spatial structure of the physical environment. - Oecologia 96: 114-121. Cooper, S. D., Barmuta, L., Sarnelle, O., Kratz, K. and Diehl, S. 1997. Quantifying spatial heterogeneity in streams. - J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 16: 174-188. Dodson, S. I. 2001. Effects of environmental heterogeneity in aquatic ecology. - Proceedings- International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology 27: 3260-3263. Fitter, A., A. Hodge, and D. Robinson. 2000. Plant response to patchy soils. Pages 71-90 in M. J. Hutchings, E. A. John, and A. J. A. Stewart, editors. The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity. Blackwell Scientific Ltd., Oxford. Gimona, A. and Birnie, R. V. 2002. Spatio-temporal modelling of broad scale heterogeneity in soil moisture content: a basis for an ecologically meaningful classification of soil landscapes. - Landscape Ecology 17: 27-41. Hinsinger, P., Gobran, G. R., Gregory, P. J. and Wenzel, W. W. 2005. Rhizosphere geometry and heterogeneity arising from root-mediated physical and chemical processes. - New Phytologist 168: 293-303. Hutchings, M. J., John, E. A. and Wijesinghe, D. K. 2003. Toward understanding the consequences of soil heterogeneity for plant populations and communities. - Ecology 84: 2322-2334. Jackson, R. B., and M. M. Caldwell. 1993. The scale of nutrient heterogeneity around individual plants and its quantification with geostatistics. Ecology 74:612-614. Keddy, P. 1991. Working with heterogeneity: an operator's guide to environmental gradients. Pages 181-201 in J. Kolasa and S. T. Pickett, editors. Ecological Heterogeneity. Springer-Verlag, New York. Kolasa, J., and C. D. Rollo. 1991. Introduction: The heterogeneity of heterogeneity: A glossary. Pages 1-23 in J. Kolasa and S. T. Pickett, editors. Ecological Heterogeneity. Springer-Verlag, New York. Kotliar, N. B. and Wiens, J. A. 1990. Multiple scales of patchiness and patch structure: a hierarchical framework for the study of heterogeneity. - Oikos 59: 253-260. Li, H., and J. F. Reynolds. 1995. On the definition and quantification of heterogeneity. Oikos 73:280-284. Phillips, J. D. 1985. Measuring complexity of environmental gradients. - Vegetatio 64: 95-102. Robertson, G. P. and Gross, K. L. 1994. Assessing the Heterogeneity of Belowground Resources: Quantifying Pattern and Scale. - In: Exploitation of Environmental Heterogeneity by Plants. Academic Press, Inc., pp. 237-253. Schlesinger, W. H., Raikes, J. A., Hartley, A. E. and Cross, A. F. 1996. On the spatial pattern of soil nutrients in desert ecosystems. - Ecology 77: 364-374. Seuront, L. and Lagadeuc, Y. 2001. Variability, Inhomogeneity and Heterogeneity: Towards a Terminological Consensus in Ecology. - Journal of Biological Systems 9: 81-88. Tews, J., Brose, U., Grimm, V., Tielborger, K., Wichmann, M. C., Schwager, M. and Jeltsch, F. 2004. Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures -Journal of Biogeography 31: 79. Townsend, A. R., Asner, G. P. and Cleveland, C. C. 2008. The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests. - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 424 Wiens, J. A. 2000. Ecological heterogeneity: on ontogeny of concepts and approaches. - In: Hutchings, M. J., John, E. A. and Stewart, A. J. A. (eds.), The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity. Blackwell Scientific Ltd., pp. 9-31. Wilson, S. D. 2000. Heterogeneity, diversity and scale in plant communities. Pages 53-69 in M. J. Hutchings, E. A. John, and A. J. A. Stewart, editors. The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity. Blackwell Scientific Ltd., Oxford. Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:04:53 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ingrid_?= <[email protected]> Subject: ecological relevance of different measures of heterogeneity Hi I am trying to write a review that discusses the issue of ecological relevance of different measures of heterogeneity. Has anybody come across some relevant literature on this topic? Thanks, Ingrid Jeremy Lundholm, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biology/Environmental Studies Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS B3H 3C3 Canada 902-420-5506 <http://husky1.smu.ca/~jlundholm/about.htm> http://husky1.smu.ca/~jlundholm/about.htm
