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The practice of landscape ecology is generally one that attempts to understand how patterns of abundances may interact with the physiognomic and compositional characteristics of landscapes (Dunning et al. 1992, Morris and Brown 1992). However, the goal is to understand why populations, enumerated across large spatial scales, frequently are not equivalent to the sum of the productivities of the component patches of usable habitat across that same region. This discrepancy generally results from the underutilization of available resources (e.g., food, cover, or breeding habitats), which, in turn, may result from the species’ inability to find these resources in time to fully exploit them. In this way, fragmented landscapes are thought to pose difficult problems for the persistence of mammalian metapopulations (see Lidicker 1995, and chapters therein for review).
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Danielson, B.J., Anderson, G.S. (1999). Habitat Selection in Geographically Complex Landscapes. In: Barrett, G.W., Peles, J.D. (eds) Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21622-5_5
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