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type: Paper Section
title: Research Hypotheses — References
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Reference list for the Part V preregistration framework, grouped from foundational
fractal geometry and diffusion-limited aggregation through metabolic scaling, LiDAR
canopy structure, self-organized criticality, zeta distributions, random matrix
theory, fractal strings and lacunarity.
resource: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/hypotheses/references/
tags: [paper, part-v, reference, preregistration]
paper:
title: "Spectral Geometry and Metabolic Scaling in Forest Canopy Architecture: A Preregistration Framework"
part_title: Research Framework and Testable Hypotheses
landing: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/hypotheses/
stage: preregistration
sources:
- id: witten-sander-1981
resource: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400
title: Diffusion-limited aggregation, a kinetic critical phenomenon (Witten and Sander 1981, Physical Review Letters)
- id: witten-sander1983
resource: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.27.5686
title: Diffusion-limited aggregation (Witten and Sander 1983, Physical Review B)
- id: meakin1983
resource: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.27.1495
title: Diffusion-controlled cluster formation in 2-6-dimensional space (Meakin 1983, Physical Review A)
- id: halsey2000
resource: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1333284
title: "Diffusion-limited aggregation: a model for pattern formation (Halsey 2000, Physics Today)"
- id: tel1989
resource: https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(89)90563-3
title: Determination of fractal dimensions for geometrical multifractals (Tel, Fulop and Vicsek 1989, Physica A)
- id: voss1986
resource: https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1986/T13/004
title: Characterization and measurement of random fractals (Voss 1986, Physica Scripta)
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# References
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## Foundational Works in Fractal Geometry
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