Scaling properties in landscape patterns: New Zealand experience

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-33

  Nikora, Vladimir I ^a   Pearson, Charles P ^a   Shankar, Ude ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fractal dimensions; Landscape; Neutral landscape models; Patchiness; Scaling; Self affinity; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033026160     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008077914643     Document Type: Article

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