CAJ | 학술논문

New methods in landscape ecology to study the link between landscape heterogeneity and landscape functionality are needed.Heterogeneity is a basic characteristic of landscape, and landscape function is the capacity to change the structural heterogeneity of a landscapesystem.In most developed countries the industrialisation of agriculture has in general resulted in a change of agricultural landscapes from asmall-grained heterogeneous pattern towards more monotonous and monofunctional landscapes.During the 1990' s this trends seems to havechanged due to a diversification of rural land use and new trends in urbanisation.Weather these phases of landscape development should beexpected in developing countries is a totally open question.Dealing with the study of multifunctionality of landscapes it is proposed to distinguish between ecological functionality of landscapeecosystems, functionality pertaining to land use and social functionality.Further, the relation between function, space and scale is important bythe determination of spatial and time segregation as well as spatial and time integration of multifunctionality in landscapes.