The Fractal Forest
Author | : Nancy D. Lorimer |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Author | : Nancy D. Lorimer |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Total Pages | : 1484 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Total Pages | : 1450 |
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Author | : Eugene Stanley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1461570123 |
Nature is full of spidery patterns: lightning bolts, coastlines, nerve cells, termite tunnels, bacteria cultures, root systems, forest fires, soil cracking, river deltas, galactic distributions, mountain ranges, tidal patterns, cloud shapes, sequencing of nucleotides in DNA, cauliflower, broccoli, lungs, kidneys, the scraggly nerve cells that carry signals to and from your brain, the branching arteries and veins that make up your circulatory system. These and other similar patterns in nature are called natural fractals or random fractals. This chapter contains activities that describe random fractals. There are two kinds of fractals: mathematical fractals and natural (or random) fractals. A mathematical fractal can be described by a mathematical formula. Given this formula, the resulting structure is always identically the same (though it may be colored in different ways). In contrast, natural fractals never repeat themselves; each one is unique, different from all others. This is because these processes are frequently equivalent to coin-flipping, plus a few simple rules. Nature is full of random fractals. In this book you will explore a few of the many random fractals in Nature. Branching, scraggly nerve cells are important to life (one of the patterns on the preceding pages). We cannot live without them. How do we describe a nerve cell? How do we classify different nerve cells? Each individual nerve cell is special, unique, different from every other nerve cell. And yet our eye sees that nerve cells are similar to one another.
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Total Pages | : 420 |
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Author | : Panayotis Dimopoulos |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3036501762 |
Human well-being and the prerequisite sustainable environmental management are currently at stake, reaching a bottleneck when trying to cope with (i) the ever-growing world population, (ii) the constantly increasing need for natural resources (and the subsequent overexploitation of species, habitats, ecosystems, and landscapes) and (iii) the documented and on-going impacts of climate change. By this, the role of conservation and management practices for the environment is characterized as a crucial and top issue and should deal with (a) promoting best practices from the local to the global level, (b) identifying spatial and temporal knowledge gaps, (c) multidisciplinary aspects for sustainable management practices, (d) identifying and interpreting the role of stakeholders and socio-economic parameters in the decision-making process, and (e) methods and practices to integrate the concept of ecosystem services into natural capital assessment and accounting, conservation and management strategies. Modern literature highlights that land use change and prioritization, the restoration of natural areas and cultural landscape identification and maintenance, should be considered at the top of the scientific and policy agenda, as well as at the epicenter of novel awareness-raising strategies for the environment in the near future.
Author | : Jens Feder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2022-10-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108839118 |
A comprehensive, stepwise introduction to the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media.
Author | : Ian Stewart |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2010-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1458716546 |
First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who tempts her away from her home and family in Flatland and becomes her guide and mentor through ten dimensions. In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.
Author | : Francisco Pugnaire |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1999-03-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780849390418 |
"Offers the latest findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology, as well as consideration of classic topics in environmental science and ecology. This wide-ranging compendium serves as an extremely accessible and useful resource for relative newcomers to the field as well as seasoned experts. Investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum, from the leaf to the ecosystem levels."