Deeply gapped vegetation patterns: On crown/root allometry, criticality and desertification

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-209

  Lefever, René ^a   Barbier, Nicolas ^a,b   Couteron, Pierre ^b   Lejeune, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Competition; Diffusion instability in ecosystems; Self organization; Swift Hohenberg equation; Vegetation gapped patterns

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARIDITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DESERTIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAP DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLANT; ROOT SYSTEM; SELF ORGANIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DESERTIFICATION; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS;

EID: 70349776044     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.07.030     Document Type: Article

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