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landscape concepts into the soil cover analysis. His idea was that only
with a deep knowledge of the two parts, the biotic and the abiotic, could
landscape structure be understood. Saldaña (1997) applied landscape
metrics to the analysis of the soil mantle in Central Spain (see section on
Quantifi cation of Landscape Pattern). Lacunarity analysis (Plotnick et al.
1993) has been applied by landscape ecologists to soils at an individual scale
(e.g., solid-pore distribution pattern) but not to quantitatively characterize
the soil mantle. This could be an interesting future line of research (Ibáñez
et al. 2009). Hole and Campbell (1985) acknowledged that similarities exist ...