Multifractal pattern and process during a recent period of forest expansion in a temperate mountainous region of China英文文献.pdfVIP

Ecological Informatics 6 (2011) 384–390 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Ecological Informatics journal homepage: www.el sevie r. com/ locate/ ecolinf Multifractal pattern and process during a recent period of forest expansion in a temperate mountainous region of China Yuxin Zhang a, Keming Ma a,⁎, Madhur Anand b, c, Bojie Fu a a State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, PR China b School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 c Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08540, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Understanding the mechanisms that drive spatial pattern change over space and time is a central goal of Received 7 March 2011 landscape ecology, but these patterns are often complex. Multifractals, an extension of the concept of fractal Received in revised form 17 August 2011 geometry, is especially suited to the description of complex pattern. In our paper, we examine the scaling Accepted 18 August 2011 properties of forest spatial pattern over 32 years of forest expansion in a warm temperate deciduous forest Available online 1 September 2011 near Beijing city using multifractal analysis. An idealized fractal growth model was used to simulate spatial pattern