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ENDEMIC PLANTS - FRACTAL ANALYSIS


NICOLESCU ANAMARIA CARMEN, ANDREI MARIN
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Splaiul Independentei, No. 91-95, sector 5, Bucharest, Department of Microbiology and Botany, Romania
e-mail: eugenthorr@yahoo.com

Issue:

SCSB, Number 1, Volume XX

Section:

Volume 20, No. 1 - Vegetal Biology

Abstract:

Fractals are geometric features of known objects with irregular, autosimilare with infinite detail observable at all scales of representation. Measuring the fractal irregularity of contour is given by the fractal dimension (DF), can be calculated by numerical methods and expressed as a specific rational fractional number. From morphofractal analyses of the endemic species it results that they have similar morphological characteristics, expressed by similar fractal dimensions. Because he analysis is performed on different species it doesn’t result similar fractal dimensions. We mention that even in the case of the same species there can appear different results between fractal parameters of the studied species the reason being the sozological criteria. The research aimed to fill data to identify different species of endemic plants in the Romanian Carpathians

Keywords:

fractal dimensions, fitofractal, box-counting, endemic plants, taxonomy.

Code [ID]:

SCSB20112001V20S01A0024 [0003701]


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