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patch: a standalone construct

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

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patch1 CONSTRUCTHabitat patchWIENS · PATCHY HABITAT

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Ecology

A discrete area of habitat set apart from its surround

A discrete area of habitat that differs from what surrounds it, the basic spatial unit in the study of how landscapes are put together and how populations move through them. Wiens set out in 1976 how organisms respond to environments that come in patches rather than as a uniform field, and Pickett and White's The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics made the patch, created and erased by disturbance, the centre of a whole account of vegetation change. The referent is a piece of ground defined by contrast with its neighbours, and the unit is an area with a boundary, a size, and an age since the last disturbance. It differs from a cultivated plot because no one made it on purpose, and from the drug and software meanings entirely.[1][2]

Unit
A bounded area of habitat differing from its surroundings
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Patch size, boundary, isolation, and time since the disturbance that formed it

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References

  1. Wiens, J. A. (1976). Population responses to patchy environments. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 7, 81–120. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.07.110176.000501
  2. Pickett, S. T. A., & White, P. S. (Eds.). (1985). The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic Press.

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