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S. Buzer

Abstract

Linking data from different scales to model coastal landscape dynamics on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia S. Buzer School of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveying, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 Introduction The scale of the landscape that includes the sandblows on Fraser Island (Queensland, Australia) means that any investigation requires a particular type of approach. The emerging paradigm of landscape ecology appeared to offer a framework and methodology that would enable the recognition of both horizontal (chorological) relationships at various scales, as well as site specific vertical (topological) relationships [1]. In this way, a study of any spatial patterns formed by the sandblows within the parabolic dunes, as well as detailed investigation of both geomorphological and vegetation processes that may be responsible for these, was possible. The holistic assumption that underlies the landscape ecology

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