Application of fractals: create an artificial habitat with several small (SS) strategy in marine environment

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-51

  Lan, Chun Hsiung ^a   Lan, Kuo Torng ^b   Hsui, Che Yu ^a  

^a NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial habitats; Cellular automation; Complexity; Evolution computational algorithm; Fractal geometry; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTIFICIAL HABITATS; CELLULAR AUTOMATION; EVOLUTION COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPLEXITY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 37449030852     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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