FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF ENDEMIC PLANTS
FROM ROMANIAN CARPATHIANS
NICOLESCU ANAMARIA CARMEN*, ANDREI MARIN
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Splaiul Independenţei, Nr.
91-95, sector 5, Bucharest, Romania.
1Department of Microbiology and Botany
*corresponding author: eugenthorr@yahoo.com
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Abstract:

Fractals are object with irregular geometric forms, autosimilare, with infinite
details, observable at all scales of representation. Measuring the fractal contour irregularity is given by the fractal dimension (Df), and can be calculated by numerical methods and expressed as a specific rational fractional number.
From morphofractal analyses of the endemic species it results that they have similar morphological characteristics, expressed by similar fractal dimensions. Because the analysis is performed on different species it doesn’t result similar fractal dimensions. We mention that even in the case of the same species there can appear different results between fractal parameters of the studied species the reason being the sozological criteria.
The research aimed to complete data in order to identify different species of endemic plants in the Romanian Carpathians.

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