ArticleScientific reports2020
On the repulsive interaction between localised vegetation patches in scarce environments.
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- How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The hidden order of Turing patterns in arid and semi-arid vegetation ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Localised labyrinthine patterns in ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Fragmentation followed by desertification in water-limited resources and/or nutrient-poor ecosystems is a major risk to the biological productivity of vegetation. By using the vegetation interaction-redistribution model, we analyse the interaction between localised vegetation patches. Here we show analytically and numerically that the interaction between two or more patches is always repulsive. As a consequence, only a single localised vegetation patch is stable, and other localised bounded states or clusters of them are unstable. Following this, we discuss the impact of the repulsive nature of the interaction on the formation and the selection of vegetation patterns in fragmented ecosystems.
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