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   Patch dynamics
   Patch dynamics is a conceptual approach to ecosystem and habitat analysis that emphasizes dynamics of heterogeneity within a system (i.e. that each area of an ecosystem is made up of a mosaic of small `sub-ecosystems`){Citation needed|date=January 2010}. Diverse patches of habitat created by natura...
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   Patch dynamics
   The concept of communities as consisting of a mosaic of patches within which abiotic disturbances and biotic interactions proceed.
   Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryP.html
   
   
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   Patch dynamics
   the change in the distribution of habitat patches in a landscape generated by patterns of disturbance and subsequent patterns of vegetative succession (Pickett and Thompson 1970:29).
   Found op http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/avian/glossary.htm
   
   
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   Patch dynamics
   [physics] Patch dynamics is a term used in physics to bridge, using algorithms, the models describing macroscale behavior and to predict large-scale patterns in fluid flow. It uses locally averaged properties of short space-time scales to advance and predict long space-time scale dynamics. I...
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