Leonardo da Vinci's rule and fractal complexity in dichotomous trees

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 107-113

  Long, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DICHOTOMY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREE;

EID: 0028358812     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1994.1056     Document Type: Article

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