Summary Stomata distribution is an example of biological patterning. Formal methods used to study stomata patterning are generally based on point-pattern analysis, which assumes that stomata are ...

1 We use a grid- and simulation-based approach to extend point pattern analysis to deal with plants of finite size and irregular shape, and compare the results of our approach with that of the ...

Nearest neighbour analysis compares the observed average distances between nearest neighbouring points and those of a known pattern. The nearest neighbour statistic, or the R-scale, is calculated by ...