Optimality and soil water-vegetation dynamics
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1 School of Environmental Systems Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Australia 2 Centre for Water Research, The University of Western Australia, Australia 3 Environmental Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences & Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 4 School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia 5 School of Science & Primary Industries, Charles Darwin University, Australia * now at: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Postfach 10 01 64, 07701 Jena, Germany ** now at: Departments of Geography and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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