Facilitation, competition, and vegetation patchiness: From scale free distribution to patterns

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 838-842

  Manor, Alon ^a   Shnerb, Nadav M ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Powerlaw distributions; Turning patterns; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; PATCH SIZE; PATCHINESS; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FIELD STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PATCH DYNAMICS; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; WATER;

EID: 47849097209     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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