Geometry in ecological patterns of landscape and vegetation is not truly fractal, and varies across a range of scales, whereas fractal geometry provides tools for predicting and describing ecological ...

The paper evaluates spatial autocorrelation structure in grassland vegetation at the community level. We address the following main issues: 1) How quadrat size affects the measurement of spatial ...

These are placed on the ground to look at the plants or slow-moving animals within them. When looking at plants in a quadrat, the following sampling can be used: Random close randomOccurring without a ...

Fig. 1 Map of the study area showing the locations of the 96 sampling quadrats and 6 mini weather stations along the Gyirong Valley. The letters correspond to the vegetation zones shown in the lower ...