Periphyton biomass spatial patterns and species abundances

Images of periphyton's biomass colonization in artificial substrata. The experiment was described in [1] but these images were not analyzed in the paper and not included in the data uploaded to dryad [2]. The original hypothesis was that the growth of microalgae in artificial substrata have a two dimensional multifractal structure. I include measurements of environmental variables and nutrients not analyzed in the paper.

We used this software:

https://github.com/lsaravia/tiff2biom

https://github.com/lsaravia/mfsba

References

1. Saravia LA, Giorgi A, Momo F (2012) Multifractal growth in periphyton communities. Oikos 121: 1810–1820. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20423.x.

2. Saravia LA, Giorgi A, Momo F (2012) Data from: Multifractal growth in periphyton communities. Oikos. doi:10.5061/dryad.61cj4.