Secondary dispersal driven by overland flow in drylands: Review and mechanistic model development

Movement Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Thompson, Sally E ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b   Chen, Li ^c   Trahktenbrot, Ana ^d   Svoray, Tal ^e   Katul, Gabriel G ^d,f  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c Division of Hydrologic Sciences   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Eulerian; Lagrangian; Modeling; Overland flow; Seed dispersal; Semi arid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992315752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-2-7     Document Type: Review

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