Fractal analysis of leaves: are all leaves self-similar along the cane?

Anna Gazda

doi:10.2478/eko-2013-0009

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Fractal analysis of leaves: are all leaves self-similar along the cane?

Ekológia (Bratislava)

Volume 32 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

By: Anna Gazda

Open Access

|Aug 2013

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