Numerical investigation of spatial pattern in a vegetation model with feedback function

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 350-360

  Liu, Quan Xing ^a,b   Jin, Zhen ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Pattern formation; Positive feedback; Turing instability; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRASS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATURATION; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; GRASS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER SUPPLY;

BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; POACEAE; TREES; WATER;

POACEAE;

EID: 50149091490     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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