CONNECTING LANDSCAPE PATTERNS TO ECOSYSTEM AND POPULATION PROCESSES

Spatially explicit ecological models offer numerous surprises, ranging from intricate tapestries of spatial patterning to widespread extinct ion when roads or deforestation fracture a landscape, Many of the gloo mier examples involve thresholds, the approach to which would be hard to anticipate with standard census data. The challenge is in making a constructive management tool from these abstract harbingers of ecologi cal disruption.