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Teaching the Complexities of Map
Boundaries
Michael N. DeMers
NMSU Geography
(SPATIALTHINKING2015)
October 12, 2015
I GET IT! CATEGORY LINES
JUST SEPARATE DIFFERENT
POLITICAL AREAS. PRETTY
STRAIGHT FORWARD.
What do these mean?
What criteria are used?
What are plant communities anyway?
What are ecoregions?
Would you use structure, floristics, or both?
Geomorphology-
Based Vegetation
Classes
Analysis of Classified Land
(landscape metrics)
H0
HA
vs
map categories
as hypotheses
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