Environmental modulation of self-organized periodic vegetation patterns in Sudan

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 990-1001

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; ARRAY; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SELF ORGANIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVELENGTH;

SUDAN;

EID: 80054994969     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06694.x     Document Type: Article

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