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Landscape supplementation

Landscape–organism relationship

The use by organisms of additional or substitutable resources in nearby landscape elements, allowing a focal habitat or patch to support more individuals or greater use than its resources alone would permit. Unlike landscape complementation, which involves different non-substitutable resources, supplementation involves additional resources of a type available elsewhere in the organism's landscape.

Dunning, J. B., Danielson, B. J., & Pulliam, H. R. (1992). Ecological processes that affect populations in complex landscapes. Oikos, 65(1), 169–175.