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Landscape complementation

Landscape–organism relationship

The use by an organism of different, spatially separated landscape elements that provide complementary, non-substitutable resources required to complete its life cycle or meet different biological requirements. Landscape complementation depends on organisms being able to move among those elements and therefore links landscape composition with functional connectivity.

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