Dry conifer forest restoration benefits Colorado Front Range avian communities
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Colorado Front Range
The term “landscape structure” refers to the configuration of vegetation and other land features over a large land area (usually an extent of many square kilometers). A landscape can be regarded as a mosaic composed of patches of different kinds— for example, different forest types, landforms, or human-built structures such as roads. The scientific discipline of landscape ecology is concerned w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Applications
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1051-0761,1939-5582
DOI: 10.1002/eap.2142