Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-269

  Kéfi, Sonia ^a,b   Eppinga, Maarten B ^a,c   de Ruiter, Peter C ^d   Rietkerk, Max ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desertification; Resource concentration; Scale dependent feedback; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DESERTIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 77957228451     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-009-0067-z     Document Type: Article

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