Based on the data from field investigation along a 5 km transect,spatial variant features of the vegetation coverage of the psammophytic half shrub community in Mu Us Sandland was described through semivariance analysis and fractal analysis.Nested structure of the vegetation coverage and its multiple scale of variability were revealed by semivariance analysis.There were at least three scales of variability over the sampling range.Fractal dimension of the vegetation coverage was estimated by fractal analys...