Box-counting dimension revisited: presenting an efficient method of minimising quantisation error and an assessment of the self-similarity of structural root systems

Fractal dimension (FD), estimated by box-counting, is a metric used to characterise plant anatomical complexity or space-filling characteristic for a variety of purposes. The vast majority of published studies fail to evaluate the assumption of statistical self-similarity, which underpins the validi...

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Main Authors: Martin eBouda, Joshua S Caplan, James Edward Saiers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00149/full