Banded vegetation: Development under uniform rainfall from a simple cellular automaton model

Plant Ecology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-111

  Dunkerley, D L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid zone vegetation; Banded vegetation; Cellular automata; Runoff; Runon; Water partitioning

Indexed keywords

BANDED VEGETATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL; RAINFALL;

EID: 0030618625     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009725732740     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Cornet, A. F., Delhoume, J. P. & Montana, C. 1988. Dynamics of striped vegetation patterns and water balance in the Chihuahuan Desert. Pp. 221-231. In: During, H. J., Werger, M. J. A., & Willems, H. J. (eds.), Diversity and pattern in plant communities. The Hague: SPB Academic, 27 p.
2. Dunkerley, D. L. & Brown, K. J. 1995. Runoff and runon areas in a patterned chenopod shrubland, arid western New South Wales, Australia: characteristics and origin. Journal of Arid Environments 30: 41-55.
3. Dunkerley, D. L. & Brown, K. J. (forthcoming). Banded vegetation near Broken Hill, Australia: significance of surface roughness and soil physical properties. Submitted to Catena, February 1996.
4. Goodspeed, J. M. & Winkworth, R. E. 1978. Fate and effect of runoff - with particular reference to arid and semi-arid plain lands. Pp. 53-63 In: Howes, K. M. W. (ed.), Studies of the Australian arid zone. III. Water in rangelands. (Proc. of symposium at Rangelands Research Unit, Alice Springs, October 1974). Melbourne: C.S.I.R.O. Div. of Land Resources Management, 25 pp.
5. Green D. G. 1994. Connectivity and complexity in landscapes and ecosystems. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 194-200.
6. Hogeweg, P. 1988. Cellular automata as a paradigm for ecological modeling. Applied Mathematics and Computation 27: 81- 100.
7. Iwasa, Y., Sato, K. & Nakashima, S. 1991. Dynamic modeling of wave regeneration (Shimagare) in subalpine Abies forests. Journal of Theoretical Biology 152: 143-158.
8. Ludwig, J A. & Tongway, D. J. 1995. Spatial organisation of landscapes and its function in semi-arid woodlands, Australia. Landscape Ecology 10: 51-63.
9. Ludwig, J. A., Tongway D. J. & Marsden, S. G. 1994. A flow-filter model for simulating the conservation of limited resources in spatially heterogenous, semi-arid landscapes. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 209-213.
10. Mabbutt, J. A. & Fanning, P. C. 1987. Vegetation banding in arid Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 12: 41- 59.
11. Macfadyen, W. A. 1950. Soil and vegetation patterns in British Somaliland. Nature 165: 121.
12. Mauchamp, A., Rambal, S. & Lepart, J. 1994. Simulating the dynamics of a vegetation mosaic: a spatialized functional model. Ecological Modelling 71: 107-130.
13. Pressland A. J. 1976. Soil moisture redistribution as affected by throughfall and stemflow in an arid zone shrub community. Australian Journal of Botany 24: 641-649.
14. Sato, K. & Iwasa, Y. 1993. Modeling of wave regeneration in subalpine Abies forests: population dynamics with spatial structure. Ecology 74: 1538-1550.
15. Specht, R. L. 1957. Dark Island Heath (Ninety-Mile Plain, South Australia). IV. Soil moisture patterns produced by rainfall interception and stemflow. Australian Journal of Botany 5: 137-150.
16. Thiéry, J. M., d'Herbès, J.-M. & Valentin, C. 1995. A model simulating the genesis of banded vegetation patterns in Niger. Journal of Ecology 83: 497-507.
17. Tongway, D. J. & Ludwig, J. A. 1990. Vegetation and soil patterning in semi-arid mulga lands of eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 15: 23-34.