Vegetation patterns and desertification waves in semi-arid environments: Mathematical models based on local facilitation in plants

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2815-2827

  Sherratt, Jonathan A ^a   Synodinos, Alexios D ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arid landscapes; Brousse Tig ee; Desert; Mathematical model; Pattern formation; Plant cooperation; Travelling waves; Wavetrain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867037677     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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