patch dynamics: Quick Facts

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Wide view of rolling green grassland with scattered trees and distant hills in Inner Mongolia, China.

Illustration showing three ecological scales: a single forest patch at the top, a cluster of forest patches in the middle, and a greater patch mosaic with forests, fields, and a river at the landscape level.

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ecosystem ecology geographic mosaic theory of coevolution community ecology population ecology Phenology systems ecology autecology

Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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