Twist number statistics as an additional measure of habitat perimeter irregularity

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-290

  Bogaert, J ^a   Van Hecke, P ^a   Moermans, R ^b   Impens, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Habitat boundary; Landscape ecology; Limes convergens and divergens; Percolation map; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033378728     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009683413861     Document Type: Article

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