How to understand empirical scale relations on the various components of multifunctionality across gradients in management intensity, and their consequences for the scale dependence of tradeoff functions? When is functional segregation better for overall effect, when can fine-grained multifunctionality survive the pressures to specialize?

Scale relations for landscape vary from area-based to various fractal dimensions (e.g. mean versus peak flows of water). This influences the perceptions and measurables of multifunctionality across gradients in management intensity. Tradeoffs shift with scale, as the various functions scale by different rules, yet much of the public discourse looks for scale-independent truths.

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