Multiscale comparison of spatial patterns using two-dimensional cross-spectral analysis: Application to a semi-arid (gapped) landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 889-902

  Barbier, Nicolas ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^b   Planchon, Olivier ^c   Diouf, Abdoulaye ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

Author keywords

Cross covariance; Map comparison; Niger; Periodic vegetation patterns; Self organization; Spatial ecology; Tiger bush; Two dimensional Fourier transform

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FOURIER TRANSFORM; SELF ORGANIZATION; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NIGER [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM MICRANTHUM; GUIERA SENEGALENSIS;

EID: 77953534285     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9466-1     Document Type: Article

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