Fractal geometry provides a multiscale quantitative approach to describing landscape patterns.
In ecology, fractals have been applied in analyzing animal movements, quantifying land use patterns, developing forest management schemes, estimating habitat usage, and in map renormalization procedures, such as GAP analysis. For fractal edification. An easy introduction Most of us are familiar with fractals from computer graphics and special effects. They are infinitely complex, sometimes beautiful shapes that can be used to immitate the complex textures we see in the real world. Because landscape ecology is concerned with the perceived spatial heterogeneity of the natural world, fractal geometry is primarily useful in this field as an analytical method akin to other statistical and geostatistical tools.