Area isn’t everything. Knowing how much old-growth forest, high-severity fire, elk migration corridor, etc. falls within your landscape is valuable, but often it only tells part of a story. Two fires might burn the same amount of forest, but if one torches a homogeneous swath across the landscape while the other disperses over dozens of small, disconnected patches, those forests will regenerate very differently. Patch metrics quantify spatial patterns to provide a deeper understanding of wh...
