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| Study of structure, function, an change in a heterogeneous landscape composed of interacting ecosystems. |
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| An area of habitat that differs from its surroundings with sufficient resources to allow a population to persist. |
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| Stable, permanent edge determined by long-term natural features and conditions. |
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| Response of organisms, animals in particular, to environmental conditions created by the edge. |
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| Edge that results from some disturbance; adjoining vegetation types are successional, changing or disappearing with time, maintained only by periodic disturbances. |
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| Transition zone between two structurally different communities; wide borders that form a transition zone between adjoining patches. |
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| The place where the edge of one vegetation patch meets the edge of another. |
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| A discrete event in time that disrupts an ecosystem, community, or population, changing substrates and resource availability. |
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| Study of distribution of organisms and community structure on islands. |
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| A strip of a particular type of vegetation that differs from land on both sides. |
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| In landscape ecology, the mean number of disturbances that occur within a time interval; in community ecology, the proportion of sample plots in which a species occurs relative to the total number of sample plots; the probability of finding the species in any one sample plot. |
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| A measure of the proportion of the total biomass or population of a species that a disturbance kills or eliminates. |
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| Level of resolution within the dimensions of time and space; spatial proportion as ratio of length on a map to actual length. |
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