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"Dynamic Landscape Modelling: The Quest for a Unifying Theory"

Cédric Gaucherel and François Houllier and Daniel Auclair and Thomas Houet

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Landscape processes: Current approaches
	2.1	Agricultural landscape
	2.2	Forest landscape
	2.3	Arid landscape
	2.4	Urban landscape
3	Landscape-model properties: Current practices
	3.1	Explicit versus neutral landscape models: the “spirit” of models
	3.2	Raster versus patchy landscape models: the “space” of models
	3.3	Mono- versus multi-scale models: the “scale” of models
	3.4	Modelling networks or not: the “veins” of models
4	What model characteristics for what landscape type: Research priorities
5	Discussion: Towards a dynamic landscape theory
	5.1	Universality behind case studies
	5.2	Complexity theory as a conceptual basis
	5.3	Mathematical formalism and modelling as a toolkit
6	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
A	Appendix
	A.1	Neutral landscape models
	A.2	Landscape self-organization
	References
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Acknowledgements

We thank C. Godin for having provided the Figure 2 *a. We warmly thank A. Cambien, A. Banos, J. Baudry, P. Couteron, and D. Lo Seen for their advice during the process of writing this paper. This synthesis was developed in the course of several projects funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (projects “BiodivAgriM” and “INC”, ANR-biodiversité 2007, project “STAMP”, ANR-blanc 2007). We are thankful to anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft.