A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

Corina E. Tarnita (), Juan A. Bonachela (), Efrat Sheffer, Jennifer A. Guyton, Tyler C. Coverdale, Ryan A. Long and Robert M. Pringle
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Corina E. Tarnita: Princeton University
Juan A. Bonachela: Marine Population Modelling Group, University of Strathclyde
Efrat Sheffer: The Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jennifer A. Guyton: Princeton University
Tyler C. Coverdale: Princeton University
Ryan A. Long: University of Idaho
Robert M. Pringle: Princeton University

Nature, 2017, vol. 541, issue 7637, 398-401

Abstract: Empirically validated mathematical models show that a combination of intraspecific competition between subterranean social-insect colonies and scale-dependent feedbacks between plants can explain the spatially periodic vegetation patterns observed in many landscapes, such as the Namib Desert ‘fairy circles’.

Date: 2017
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