Measuring habitat complexity and spatial heterogeneity in ecology

Prebiotic Aggregates (Tissues) Emerging from Reaction–Diffusion: Formation Time, Configuration Entropy and Optimal Spatial Dimension

(2022) Juan Cesar Flores   Entropy

Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

(2021) Martin Ehbrecht et al.   Nature Communications

Artificial shorelines lack natural structural complexity across scales

(2021) Peter J. Lawrence et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fractals with Optimal Information Dimension

(2021) Subhash Kak   CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration

(2021) Renata Ferrari et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

An experimental test of the area–heterogeneity tradeoff

(2020) Eyal Ben-Hur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Three-dimensional digital mapping of ecosystems: a new era in spatial ecology

(2020) Tim D'Urban Jackson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A mini-introduction to information theory

(2020) Edward Witten   RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO

A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity

(2020) Damaris Torres-Pulliza et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration

(2020) Megan I. Saunders et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data

(2020) Jean-Romain Roussel et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Capturing complexity: field-testing the use of ‘structure from motion’ derived virtual models to replicate standard measures of reef physical structure

(2019) Daniel T.I. Bayley et al.   PeerJ

Effects of habitat area and spatial configuration on biodiversity in an experimental intertidal community

(2019) Lynette H. L. Loke et al.   ECOLOGY

Differential box counting methods for estimating fractal dimension of gray-scale images: A survey

(2019) Chinmaya Panigrahy et al.   CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS

Scaling and Complexity in Landscape Ecology

(2019) Erica A. Newman et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Heterogeneity–diversity relationships in sessile organisms: a unified framework

(2019) Eyal Ben‐Hur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

3D Imaging Insights into Forests and Coral Reefs

(2019) Kim Calders et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

High beta diversity among small islands is due to environmental heterogeneity rather than ecological drift

(2018) Jinliang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species

(2017) Jennifer A. Dijkstra et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The effects of manipulating microhabitat size and variability on tropical seawall biodiversity: field and flume experiments

(2017) Lynette H.L. Loke et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives

(2017) Catherine Badgley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cost and time-effective method for multi-scale measures of rugosity, fractal dimension, and vector dispersion from coral reef 3D models

(2017) G. C. Young et al.   PLoS One

Structural complexity and component type increase intertidal biodiversity independently of area

(2016) Lynette H. L. Loke et al.   ECOLOGY

Box-Counting Dimension Revisited: Presenting an Efficient Method of Minimizing Quantization Error and an Assessment of the Self-Similarity of Structural Root Systems

(2016) Martin Bouda et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Creating complex habitats for restoration and reconciliation

(2015) Lynette H.L. Loke et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Accuracy and Precision of Habitat Structural Complexity Metrics Derived from Underwater Photogrammetry

(2015) Will Figueira et al.   Remote Sensing

Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

(2014) Nathalie Pettorelli et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A new arc–chord ratio (ACR) rugosity index for quantifying three-dimensional landscape structural complexity

(2014) Cherisse Du Preez   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Complexity for Artificial Substrates (CASU): Software for Creating and Visualising Habitat Complexity

(2014) Lynette H. L. Loke et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Characterisation of Vegetation Structure to Predict Refugia and Climate Change Impacts across a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

(2014) Antonius G. T. Schut et al.   PLoS One

Effect of habitat complexity attributes on species richness

(2014) Jasmine I. St. Pierre et al.   Ecosphere

Sample size requirements for fractal dimension estimation

(2013) N. Kenkel   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Remotely sensed forest structural complexity predicts multi species occurrence at the landscape scale

(2013) Florian Zellweger et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems

(2012) N. A. J. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

Multi-Scale Measures of Rugosity, Slope and Aspect from Benthic Stereo Image Reconstructions

(2012) Ariell Friedman et al.   PLoS One

Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities

(2012) O. Allouche et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimators of Fractal Dimension: Assessing the Roughness of Time Series and Spatial Data

(2012) Tilmann Gneiting et al.   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

What is a complex system?

(2012) James Ladyman et al.   European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions

(2011) Katya E. Kovalenko et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Habitat complexity in aquatic systems: fractals and beyond

(2011) M. Tokeshi et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Use of Fractal Dimension to Assess Habitat Complexity and Its Influence on Dominant Invertebrates Inhabiting Tropical and Temperate Macrophytes

(2011) Eric D. Dibble et al.   JOURNAL OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

Tectonics, topography, and mammalian diversity

(2010) Catherine Badgley   ECOGRAPHY

River restoration, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity: a failure of theory or practice?

(2010) MARGARET A. PALMER et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Multiscale Analysis of Topographic Surface Roughness in the Midland Valley, Scotland

(2010) Carlos Henrique Grohmann et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Reefs as Cradles of Evolution and Sources of Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic

(2010) W. Kiessling et al.   SCIENCE

The duality of fractals: roughness and self-similarity

(2010) Nicolas Bez et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Assessing biodiversity by remote sensing in mountainous terrain: the potential of LiDAR to predict forest beetle assemblages

(2009) Jörg Müller et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A System in Which Available Energy Per Se Controls Alpha Diversity: Marine Pelagic Birds

(2008) Dean Hashmi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Quantifying habitat structure: surface convolution and living space for species in complex environments

(2008) D. M. Warfe et al.   OIKOS

Towards a core set of landscape metrics for biodiversity assessments: A case study from Dadia National Park, Greece

(2007) Stefan Schindler et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS