From theoretical ecology to statistical physics and back: Self-similar landscape metrics as a synthesis of ecological diversity and geometrical complexity

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 245-253

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Multifractals; Renyi's generalized entropy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0034651035     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00185-4     Document Type: Article

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