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Connectivity
Landscape structure
The degree to which landscape structure facilitates or impedes movement among locations or resource patches. Because connectivity can describe either physical landscape arrangement or organism-specific movement, structural connectivity and functional connectivity should normally be distinguished.
Taylor, P. D., Fahrig, L., Henein, K., & Merriam, G. (1993). Connectivity is a vital element of landscape structure. Oikos, 68(3), 571–573. Tischendorf, L., & Fahrig, L. (2000). On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity. Oikos, 90(1), 7–19.
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