Today the landscape serves as the backdrop for a new St.
Equally, the creatures that survive, or thrive, in this massively modified landscape serve as proxies for competing visions of class, freedom, order and beauty.
In a way, though, these man-made blots on the landscape serve to underline the natural beauty of the rainforest and its importance.
Here too a vast, unspoiled landscape serves as theater (and unstated object of contention) for a conflict of cultures, one modern, invasive and prosaically obsessed with settlement and trade; the other ancient, indigenous and in magical, fluid rapport with its surroundings.
Her instinctive underplaying gives "Whale Rider" an added gravity, with the lush remoteness of the landscape serving as an entrancing contrast to the sugar-rush, you-go-girl empowerment of programmed pandering like "The Lizzie McGuire Movie," whose tweener heroine flails her arms and bats her eyes as if she were sending distress signals.
This landscape serves as the background context for studies of industrial location.
Broad-scale changes in prey distribution could also occur if the collective attributes of a landscape serve to alternately provide areas with decreased or increased predation risk.
These two elements of the periglacial landscape serve as complementary paleoenvironmental archives that can be traced back to ∼ 14,000 cal yr BP.
Resource retention is an important component of landscape function in semi-arid environments, with patches in the landscape serving as sink zones, capturing runoff, sediments and nutrients from inter-patches or source areas.
