Spatial scale has two components: 1) extent, the total area that

June 04,2024

Download scientific diagram | Spatial scale has two components: 1) extent, the total area that contains the population or assemblage under consideration, and 2) resolution (e.g. the plot area of the sampled community). Broad spatial extents tend to include a broad range of environmental variables (e.g. elevational and climatic gradients), whereas medium and small spatial extents reflect local habitat and landscape structure variables. Circles represent the plots used to measured ecological responses and/or environmental variables. All the plots (blue + yellow) could be used to discern the relationships between traits, environmental variables and ecological responses at large extents, whereas the yellow plots could help to analyse these relationships at smaller extents. Individual plots can be of different sizes; the size of a plot used in a specific study determines the spatial resolution of that study. Fine resolutions may be more appropriate for detecting the influence of traits related to biotic interactions and local environmental heterogeneity, whereas at coarse resolutions, ecological responses reflect the averaging effect of broad-scale environmental variables from publication: The Scale-Dependent Role of Biological Traits in Landscape Ecology: A Review | Purpose of Review We describe current approaches that evaluate how the influence of species traits on the relationship between environmental variables and ecological responses varies among scales (i.e. the scale-dependent role of traits). We quantify which traits and | Landscape Ecology, Landscape and Multi-Scale | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.