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Fig. 10.1 Coulombray’s rocks. (© Laurent Ballesta/Andromède océanologie, All rights reserved)
ecological approach as a multidisciplinary method of describing different ecosystem
compartments at different scales.
Created specifically as a mechanism to ameliorate the management of data on
nature and landscapes, in such a manner as to serve both of its founding conventions,
the SINP has, since its origin and in its very definition, taken into consideration both
the societal and ecological acceptations of landscape. Its modus operandi allows
the delivery to operators working in the development of a landscape approach key
elements of knowledge.
10.3 Two Complimentary Landscape Expressions
The SINP contributes towards landscape analysis, both through the scenic acceptation
of the concept as well as through its ecological prism. It is therefore possible to
illustrate the methodological inputs enabled by the SINP through a few specific
examples.
10.3.1 The Ecological Marine Landscape
Because coral reef ecosystems exist as a complex mosaic of habitat patches (e.g.,
reefs, seagrass patches), they are ideally suited for a landscape ecology approach
(Großer-Dunsmore et al. 2007). We therefore used an example in one of France’s
overseas territories to illustrate how the SINP can act as a tool for one of the many marine landscape perspectives presented during the conference. Searches can be carried
out in the SINP via its metadata discovery portal (http://inventaire.naturefrance.fr),
with filters both by theme and by biogeographical area. Search results in the southwest Indian Ocean reveal a number of different data sets in and around the Island of
la Réunion:
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Fig. 10.1 Coulombray’s rocks. (© Laurent Ballesta/Andromède océanologie, All rights reserved)
ecological approach as a multidisciplinary method of describing different ecosystem
compartments at different scales.
Created specifically as a mechanism to ameliorate the management of data on
nature and landscapes, in such a manner as to serve both of its founding conventions,
the SINP has, since its origin and in its very definition, taken into consideration both
the societal and ecological acceptations of landscape. Its modus operandi allows
the delivery to operators working in the development of a landscape approach key
elements of knowledge.
10.3 Two Complimentary Landscape Expressions
The SINP contributes towards landscape analysis, both through the scenic acceptation
of the concept as well as through its ecological prism. It is therefore possible to
illustrate the methodological inputs enabled by the SINP through a few specific
examples.
10.3.1 The Ecological Marine Landscape
Because coral reef ecosystems exist as a complex mosaic of habitat patches (e.g.,
reefs, seagrass patches), they are ideally suited for a landscape ecology approach
(Großer-Dunsmore et al. 2007). We therefore used an example in one of France’s
overseas territories to illustrate how the SINP can act as a tool for one of the many marine landscape perspectives presented during the conference. Searches can be carried
out in the SINP via its metadata discovery portal (http://inventaire.naturefrance.fr),
with filters both by theme and by biogeographical area. Search results in the southwest Indian Ocean reveal a number of different data sets in and around the Island of
la Réunion: