mfSBA: Multifractal analysis of spatial patterns in ecological communities
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Authors | Leonardo A. Saravia |
Journal/Conference Name | Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
Paper Category | Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Evolution |
Paper Abstract | Multifractals have been applied to characterize complex communities in a spatial context. They were developed for nonlinear systems and are particularly suited to capture multiplicative processes observed in ecological systems. Multifractals characterize variability in a scale-independent way within an experimental range. I have developed an open-source software package to estimate multifractals using a box-counting algorithm (available from https//github.com/lsaravia/mfsba and permanently available at doi 10.5281/zenodo.8481). The software is specially designed for two dimensional (2D) images such as the ones obtained from remote sensing, but other 2D data types can also be analyzed. Additionally I developed a new metric to analyze multispecies spatial patterns with multifractals spatial rank surface, which is included in the software. |
Date of publication | 2014 |
Code Programming Language | C++ |
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