The duality of fractals: Roughness and self-similarity

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 371-383

  Bez, Nicolas ^a   Bertrand, Sophie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Fractal; Madogram; Resolution; Roughness; Scale; Self similarity; Support; Variogram

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VARIOGRAM;

CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 79960617029     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-010-0084-y     Document Type: Article

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