Editors: N. C. Kenkel & J. Podani

Scale, Pattern, Fractals and Diversity

Contents

Preface 1

O. Wildi: Simulating vegetation at a local scale: probability modelling and fuzzy perception 3

D. J. Walker & N. C. Kenkel: Fractal analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in boreal forest landscapes 13

G. Fekete & Z. Fekete: Distance distribution between patch systems: a new method to analyse community mosaics 29

V. DePatta Pillar: Sampling sufficiency in ecological surveys 37

S. Bartha, T. Czaran & J. Podani: Exploring plant community dynamics in abstract coenostate spaces 49

M. B. Dale: Space, scale and description 67

X. He & L. Orloci: Anderson Pond revisited: the late-Quaternary vegetation process 81

Gy. Kroel-Dulay: Stepwise transformation of phytosociological data: a case study in the semiarid grasslands of New Mexico 95

J. Podani, T. Czaran & I. Scheuring: Individual-centered analysis of community pattern: some case studies 101

C. Ricotta, N. C. Kenkel, E. De Zuliani, G. C. Avena: Community richness, diversity and evenness: a fractal approach 113

E. Jako & P. Itczes: A discrete mathematical approach to the analysis of spatial pattern 121

C. Ricotta, G. C. Avena & E. R. Olsen: Geographic windows in the fractal analysis of local landscape complexity 143

B. Tothmeresz: On the characterization of scale-dependent diversity 149

J. Izsak: Software abstract. DIVERSI 1.1: A program for diversity calculations 157