Landscape Diversity: The Concept Applied to Yellowstone Park
Romme WH and Knight DH. 1982. Landscape Diversity: The Concept Applied to Yellowstone Park. BioScience. 32(8):664-670
Changes in landscape patterns may influence a variety of natural features including wildlife abundance, nutrient flow, and lake productivity. Data suggest that cyclic changes in landscape diversity occur on areas of 100 km2 in Yellowstone National Park. When properly managed, large wilderness areas provide the best and probably the only locale for studying the kind of landscape changes that occurred for millenia in presettlement times.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Romme, William; Knight, Dennis
- Units
- GRTE , YELL
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Biodiversity, Ecology, Ecosystems, FIRE, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Forest, Hydrology, Lakes and Ponds, Landscape, Mammals, Natural Resource Management, Recovery, Reforestation, Subalpine Zone, Succession, Trees, Vegetation