The phrase "area patch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to geography, software, or environmental discussions where a specific section or segment of an area is being referred to.
Example: "The area patch we surveyed showed significant biodiversity compared to the surrounding regions."
Alternatives: "region segment" or "zone section".
Yet, even at constant total habitat area, patch relocations can be detrimental for species.
Various landscape metrics of each zone, including area, patch density and size, edge, shape, nearest-neighbor, diversity, and contagion and interspersion metrics were calculated using the landscape structure analysis program FRAGSTATS.
The fractal dimension of the Z. noltii landscape increased by 50% showing that besides a decrease in total area, number of patches, and patch mean area, patch fragmentation was an important consequence of this anthropogenic disturbance.
This paper characterized the farmland landscape fragmentation dynamics in Tiaoxi watershed (China) from 1985 to 2013 using a set of variables (area-weighted mean patch area, patch density, area-weighted mean shape index, mean Euclidean nearest neighbor distance, splitting index, and effective mesh size).
In the early 1980s, when torched or abandoned apartments were razed — particularly in the East 176th Street area — patches of tall grasses and flowers quickly took their place.
The TPF is the fraction between the area of the patch truly retrieved and the total patch area while the FPF is the fraction between the area falsely localized outside the patch and the total cortical area minus the patch area.
This means that the proposed method gradually reconstructs missing areas patch by patch starting from the missing boundary.
Colonisation was mainly explained by connectivity and never by patch area, while extinction events in H. semele were explained by small patch area.
Processes occurring within small areas (patch-scale) that influence species richness and spatial heterogeneity of larger areas (landscape-scale) have long been an interest of ecologists.
Another method for covering bare patches is to use a strip of lawn from a rich growing area to patch the bare area (you'll need to re-sow the area where it came from).
Patch area and inter-patch distances were calculated using aerial photographs (year 2000) with ArcGIS 9 software.
