MULTISCALE ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS

As a precursor to management, ecosystems of different sizes need to be mapped at different scales. The key to developing criteria for subdiv iding land into ecosystems is understanding the factors that control e cosystem size at various scales in a hierarchy. The relationships betw een an ecosystem at one scale and ecosystems at smaller or larger scal es must be examined, in order to predict the effects of management. Mu lti-scale mapping is helpful in analyzing relationships of this type.