The global biogeography of semi-arid periodic vegetation patterns

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 715-723

  Deblauwe, Vincent ^a   Barbier, Nicolas ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^c,d   Lejeune, Olivier ^e,f   Bogaert, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^f UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aridity; Banded vegetation; Bioclimatic envelope; Hierarchical partitioning; Maximum entropy; Periodic vegetation pattern; Self organization; Tiger bush

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARIDITY; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; BIOZONATION; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SELF ORGANIZATION; SEMIARID REGION;

EID: 54249150611     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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