How simple grazing rules can lead to persistent boundaries in vegetation communities

Oikos

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-24

  Farnsworth, Keith D ^a   Anderson, Alexander R A ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 0035159719     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950102.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Patch Structure, dynamics and implications for the functioning of arid ecosystems
2. Biased random walk models for chemotaxis and related diffusion approximations
3. Continuous and discrete mathematical models of tumour-induced angiogenesis
4. Nematode movement along a chemical gradient in a structurally heterogeneous environment: II theory
5. Increased sheep numbers and the loss of heather moorland in the Peak District, England
6. Spatial heterogeneity, sea-urchin grazing, and habitat structure on reefs in temperate Australia
7. Animal group forces resulting from predator avoidance and competition minimisation
8. Efficiency of area-concentrated searching behaviour in a continuous patchy environment
9. How animals use their environment: A new look at kinesis
10. Competition between plant populations at low and high nutrient supplies
11. Modelling the effects of patch size on vegetation dynamics: Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) under grazing
12. Spatial analysis of animal's movements using a correlated random walk model
13. Optimal foraging: The marginal value theorem
14. The influence of vegetation pattern on the grazing of heather moorland by deer and sheep. II. The impact on heather
15. Experimental trampling of vegetation 2. Predictors of resistance and resilience
16. Beyond the ideal free distribution: More general models of predator distribution
17. How do grazers achieve their distribution? A continuum of models from random diffusion to the ideal free distribution using biased random walks
18. On territorial behaviour and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds
19. Computer simulation of changes in vegetation subject to grazing
20. Movement rules for herbivores in spatially heterogeneous environments: Responses to small scale pattern
21. Spatial and temporal patterns of heather use by sheep and red deer within natural heather/grass mosaics
22. Foraging behaviour of sheep and red deer within natural heather/grass mosaics
23. Switching between resources and the ideal free distribution
24. Vertebrate herbivores and northern pant communities-reciprocal influences and responses
25. Simulated pattern formation around artificial water-holes in the semi-arid Kalahari
26. Swarms of predators exhibit "preytaxis" if individual predators use area restricted search
27. Travelling bands of chemotactic bacteria: A theoretical analysis
28. Population dynamic models in heterogenous environments
29. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology
30. Herbivore influences on plant performance and competitive interactions
31. A spatially-explicit model of moose foraging and energetics
32. Linking moose population and plant growth models with a moose energetics model
33. Population consequences of constitutive and inducible plant resistance: Herbivore spatial spread
34. Aggregation, blowup and collapse: The ABCs of taxis in reinforced random walks
35. Spatial heterogeneities, carrying capacity and feedbacks in animal-landscape interactions
36. Spatial patterns in the moose-forest-soil ecosystem on Isle Royale, Michigan, USA
37. Further development of the Spalinger-Hobbs mechanistic foraging model for free-ranging moose
38. The distribution and abundance of resources encountered by a forager
39. Origin, maintenance, and ecosystem effect of vegetation patches in arid lands
40. Resources: A graphical-mechanistic approach to competition and predation
41. Simulated long-term vegetation response to longterm grazing heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands
42. Boundary dynamics: A conceptual framework for studying landscape ecosystems
43. Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology