The increasing importance of 1/f-noises as models of ecological variability

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Halley, John M ^a   Inchausti, Pablo ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Ecology; Fractals; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144252374     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477504001884     Document Type: Review

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