Spatial decoupling of facilitation and competition at the origin of gapped vegetation patterns

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1521-1531

  Barbier, Nicolas ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^c,d   Lefever, René ^a   Deblauwe, Vincent ^a   Lejeune, Olivier ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Inst Francais Pondichery P O B   (India)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Allometry; Aridity; Niger; Root shoot ratio; Self organization; Symmetry breaking instability; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARIDITY; EVAPORATION; GAP DYNAMICS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SYMMETRY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM MICRANTHUM;

RAIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; NIGER; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SEASON; SOIL;

CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NIGER; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 54249148731     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0365.1     Document Type: Article

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