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extent: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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extent1 CONSTRUCTSpatial extentSCALE · GRAIN & EXTENT

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Landscape ecology

The overall area a study spans

In landscape ecology, extent is the total area (or time span) encompassed by a study (the outer bound of observation) paired with grain, the finest resolution recorded; together grain and extent fix the scale at which spatial pattern is detected and at which pattern–process relationships emerge. Turner's Landscape ecology: The effect of pattern on process frames scale in these terms. The referent is the spatial or temporal span of observation, unrelated to disk storage or a set of bell rows.[1]

Unit
The area or time span covered by a study
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Reported as the total area or duration of the study domain

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permutation1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructCayley graph2 fields · 4 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systemslandscape5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

  1. Turner, M. G. (1989). Landscape ecology: The effect of pattern on process. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 20, 171–197. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.20.110189.001131

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