Fig. 2: Scale dependency of ecological functionality.
From: The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data
The upper panel shows decreasing climatic and ecological scales from GCMs (Global Climate Models) to supraregional ecozones, regional habitats, and local and micro niches (realised niches). The lower panel shows increasing spatial operations, including small-scale fragmentation, simplification such as regional aggregation and binning, and estimation processes such as interpolation. Figure © Michael Kempf 2025.
