Localized vegetation patches: A self-organized response to resource scarcity
- 29 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 66 (1), 010901
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.010901
Abstract
We show that spatial self-organization allows vegetation to survive greater resource limitation. Isolated vegetation patches observed in nutrient-poor territories of South America and West Africa are interpreted as localized structures arising from the bistability between the bare state and the patchy vegetation state.Keywords
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