Linking Spatial and Temporal Variation at Multiple Scales in a Heterogeneous LandscapeFootnote∗

∗This work was partially supported by NASA Grant No. NAG5-9331 to Dr. Michael W. Binford. We are grateful to Emilio Bruna for some useful discussions that helped to refine the contents of this article and to Dr. Peter Waylen who provided invaluable assistance with the technical difficulties associated with programming the neutral landscape model. We are also grateful to Dr. Kelley Crews-Meyer and Dr. Kenneth Young for organizing a special session on Landscape Ecology and GIS at the Centennial AAG Meeting in 2004 from which this article originated and for their continued and tireless efforts to have the outputs from this meeting published together in a top geography journal.

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