A method for the objective selection of landscape‐scale study regions and sites at the national level

Summary Ecological processes operating on large spatio‐temporal scales are difficult to disentangle with traditional empirical approaches. Alternatively, researchers can take advantage of ‘natural’ experiments, where experimental control is exercised by careful site selection. Recent advances in developing protocols for designing these ‘pseudo‐experiments’ commonly do not consider the selection of the focal region and predictor variables are...