Ecological Concepts:

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Ecological Concepts Scale Structure Technology
Modeling
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SCALE
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Spatial Variation in NDVI at Different Spatial
Scales
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Structure
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A simple example Most trees do not grow their
parts symmetrically. The relations among the
dimensions of trees are related as fractional
exponents or allometric functions.
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This means that an equivalent leaf area from two
forests comprised of trees of different sizes
with the same leaf area have very different
biomass, heights, volumes, respiration demands,
etc.
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Vegetation Structure

• Vegetation structure is the habitat parameter for
  many species!
• Habitat complexity primary driver of species
  richness.

from LVIS
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Ecological Concepts Scale Structure Technology
Modeling