Rank refers to the matching sum of queries received by each mobile user and retained resource information.
The older provinces already had this control, but when Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba were admitted to Confederation, the federal government retained resource rights and paid the provincial governments an annual grant as compensation.
It retains resources unmatched by anyone else in the region, and should be the place everyone starts when looking for news and information about the United States federal government.
The lacunarity index also correctly ranked sites, but showed little separation amongst sites with reduced potential to retain resources.
In this paper, we compare four landscape patchiness metrics on their ability to indicate how well landscapes potentially function to retain resources.
Surface roughness, as indicated by rip-lines, was also a useful indicator of the potential for a landscape to retain resources because these rip-lines persisted until vegetation was well established to assume this role.
Landscape patch attributes (e.g. patch cover and spacing) and on-ground inspection of soil and vegetation attributes were used to rate and rank four sites relative to their potential to retain resources.
In arid and semi-arid rangeland regions, landscapes that trap and retain resources, such as rain water, soil particles, and organic matter, provide more favorable habitats for vegetation and fauna, and are considered more functional than landscapes that lose, or leak, these essential resources.
Two major categories of factors are predicted to influence behaviour in dyadic contests; differences in the abilities of the contestants to acquire and retain resources (resource holding potential), and the value of the contested resource (resource value, RV; which comprises objective and subjective components).
