LAND USE CHANGE STUDIED BY MEANS OF MULTIFRACTAL GEOMETRY.

Understanding the mechanisms that drive spatial pattern changes over space and time is a central goal of landscape ecology, but these patterns are often complex. Multifractals, an extension of the concept of fractal geometry, is especially suited to the description of complex patterns. In our paper, we examine the scaling properties of forest spatial patterns over some decades of forest expansion and deforestation in a few regions, using multifractal analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]