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Landscape Patterns in a Range of Spatio-Temporal Scales

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The term “landscape” was introduced into Russian scientific literature in 1913. Since that time a lot of competing conceptions about landscape structure have been developed. Although traditional genesis-based approach with strong focus on abiotic factors is most widely applied, today landscape is treated as a multifaceted and multifunctional phenomenon, a complex system that requires multiplicity of projections to reveal essential relations between geocomponents and spatial elements. The chapter contains a review of approaches and concepts used in Russia to describe landscape structure: genetic–morphological, positional–dynamical, paragenetical, biocentric, biocirculation, basin, and catena approaches, the concept of chorions. Landscape map provides information on various types of landscape structures although one of them is commonly chosen as a basic frame. The choice of basic type of structure used for map** is dictated by expected practical application.

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This research was conducted according to the State target for Lomonosov Moscow State University “Structure, functioning and evolution of natural and natural-anthropogenic geosystems” (project no. АААА-А16-116032810081-9).

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    Kirill N. Dyakonov

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Khoroshev, A.V. (2020). Concepts of Landscape Pattern. In: Khoroshev, A., Dyakonov, K. (eds) Landscape Patterns in a Range of Spatio-Temporal Scales. Landscape Series, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31185-8_1

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