Vegetation pattern formation in semi-arid grazing systems

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 50-61

  HilleRisLambers, Reinier ^a   Rietkerk, Max ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frank ^b   Prins, Herbert H T ^a   De Kroon, Hans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grazing; Herbivory; Patchiness; Plant dispersal; Plant soil interaction; Positive feedback; Runoff; Semi arid grazing systems; Spatially explicit model; Turing analysis; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRAZING; INFILTRATION; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0035132978     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[0050:VPFISA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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