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Fractal geometry: a tool for describing spatial patterns of plant communities

✍ Scribed by Palmer, Michael W.

Book ID
104621086
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
844 KB
Volume
75
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-5052

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✦ Synopsis

Vegetation is a fractal because it exhibits variation over a continuum of scales. The spatial structure of sandrim, bryophyte, pocosin, suburban lawn, forest tree, and forest understory communities was analyzed with a combination of ordination and geostatistical methods. The results either suggest appropriate quadrat sizes and spacings for vegetation research, or they reveal that a sampling design compatible with classical statistics is impossible. The fractal dimensions obtained from these analyses are generally close to 2, implying weak spatial dependence. The fractal dimension is not a constant function of scale, implying that patterns of spatial variation at one scale cannot be extrapolated to other scales.

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