Vegetation pattern formation in semiarid systems without facilitative mechanisms
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Vegetation pattern formation in semiarid systems without facilitative mechanisms
[1] Regular vegetation patterns in semiarid ecosystems are believed to arise from the interplay between long-range competition and facilitation processes acting at smaller distances. We show that, under rather general conditions, longrange competition alone may be enough to shape these patterns. To this end we propose a simple, general model for the dynamics of vegetation, which includes only l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1002/2013gl058797