The VFractal: a new estimator for fractal dimension of animal movement paths

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  1996-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF02059856
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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