Self-organized vegetation patterning as a fingerprint of climate and human impact on semi-arid ecosystems

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 537-547

  Barbier, Nicolas ^a   Couteron, Pierre ^c,d   Lejoly, Jean ^a   Deblauwe, Vincent ^b   Lejeune, Olivier ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Laboratoire d'Ecologie du Paysage   (Belgium)

^c FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate variability; Ecosystem monitoring; Fourier transform; Human pressure; Pattern classification; Remote sensing; Self organization; Symmetry breaking instability; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAZING; MODEL; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE; VEGETATION; WOOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645863150     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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