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For ecological research the scale of phenomena becomes increasingly important, both for reasons of sampling and for interpreting the results. At present, it seems possible to determine which biophysical factors are dominant in ecological zones, regions, sectors and/or districts, and stations or sites. The hierarchy of these ecological units then becomes a natural one, and their being spatially nested in each other becomes more logically founded.
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Godron, M. (1994). The natural hierarchy of ecological systems. In: Klijn, F. (eds) Ecosystem Classification for Environmental Management. Ecology & Environment, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1384-9_4
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