Local properties of patterned vegetation: Quantifying endogenous and exogenous effects

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2004, 2013, Pages

  Penny, Gopal G ^a   Daniels, Karen E ^b   Thompson, Sally E ^a  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid ecosystems; Fourier analysis; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS;

ARID ECOSYSTEMS; LOCAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; PATTERN COHERENCE; PATTERN FORMATION; SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION PATTERN; WATER ACCUMULATION;

VEGETATION;

SOIL; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; SOIL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DESERT CLIMATE; METHODOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SOIL; WATER; DESERT CLIMATE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASONS;

EID: 84888080871     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0359     Document Type: Article

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