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| Web URL(s): | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00129253
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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Wilson, J. Bastow;
King, Warren McG. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Botany Department, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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| Title: | Human-mediated vegetation switches as processes in landscape ecology |
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| Source: | Landscape Ecology. Vol. 10, No. 4, August 1995, p. 191-196. |
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| Publishing Information: | The Hague: SPB Academic Pub. |
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| # of Pages: | 6 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Ecology; Landscaping; Behavior; Interactions; Human response to environmental features
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Switches are processes in which there is positive feedback between vegetation and environment. Landscape features can be created and modified by switches. The concept has previously been used with physical factors and non-human animals as the switch mediator, i.e. the factor which the vegetation modifies and which in turn affects the vegetation. Here, the switch concept can explain the impact on the landscape of some types of human behaviour. Examples are given of the behaviour of mower drivers, mowing up to a boundary which they create and/or maintain, and of walkers trampling tracks which they create and/or maintain. Other possibilities are discussed briefly. It is concluded that the concept of a human-mediated switch can unify the study of human behaviour, vegetation processes and landscape ecology." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 31 |
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| Note: | Pictures, b/w |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Wilson, J. B., and W. M. King. 1995. Human-mediated vegetation switches as processes in landscape ecology. Landscape Ecol. 10(4):p. 191-196. |
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