Determinants and dynamics of banded vegetation pattern migration in arid climates

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-21

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Aridity; Australia; Banded patterns; Chihuahuan desert; Cross spectral analysis; Drought; Patch dynamics; Plant demography; Remote sensing; Self organization; Somalia; Tiger bush

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARIDITY; CONTOUR MAP; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT; DROUGHT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STEPPE; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; MOROCCO; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOMALIA;

EID: 84859597566     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0362.1     Document Type: Article

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