Fusing multidimensional hierarchical information into finer spatial landscape metrics.

ABSTRACT: One of the core issues of ecology is to understand the effects of landscape patterns on ecological processes. For this, we need to accurately capture changes in the fine landscape structures to avoid losing information about spatial heterogeneity. The landscape pattern indicators (LPIs) can characterize the spatial structures and give some information about landscape patterns. However, researches on LPIs had mainly focused on the horizontal structure of landscape patterns, while few studies addressed vertical relationships between the levels of hierarchical landscape structures. Thus, the ignorance of the vertical hierarchical relationships may cause serious biases and reduce LPIs' representational ability and accuracy. The hierarchy theory about the landscape pattern structures could nota

SUBMITTER: Fu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571621 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature