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Patches of vegetation consist of dense clusters of shrubs, grass, or trees, often found to be circular characteristic size, defined by the properties of the vegetation and terrain. Therefore, vegetation patches can be interpreted as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-29 Mustapha Tlidi , Ignacio Bordeu , Marcel G. Clerc , Daniel Escaff

In this work, we present and analyze a general framework for vegetation dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems in which non-local interactions are purely competitive. The generality of the formulation enables a systematic search for…

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Due to climate change, overgrazing, and deforestation, arid ecosystems are vulnerable to desertification and land degradation. As aridity increases, vegetation cover loses spatial homogeneity and self-organizes into heterogeneous vegetation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 D. Pinto-Ramos , M. G. Clerc , A. Makhoute , M. Tlidi

Patterned vegetation is a characteristic feature of many dryland ecosystems. While plant densities on the ecosystem-wide scale are typically low, a spatial self-organisation principle leads to the occurrence of alternating patches of high…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-05 Lukas Eigentler

A feature common to many models of vegetation pattern formation in semi-arid ecosystems is a sequence of qualitatively different patterned states, "gaps -> labyrinth -> spots", that occurs as a parameter representing precipitation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-10-10 Karna Gowda , Hermann Riecke , Mary Silber

Understanding the causes and effects of spatial vegetation patterns is a fundamental problem in ecology, especially because these can be used as early predictors of catastrophic shifts such as desertification processes. Empirical studies of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-19 Paula Villa Martín , Virginia Domínguez-García , Miguel A. Muñoz

The formation of vegetation patterns in the arid and the semi-arid climatic zones is studied. Threshold for the biomass of the perennial flora is shown to be a relevant factor, leading to a frozen disordered patterns in the arid zone. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 N. M. Shnerb , P. Sara , H. Lavee , S. Solomon

This paper delves into a systematically reduced plant system proposed by Ja\"ibi et al. [Phys. D, 2020] in arid area. They used the method of geometric singular perturbation to study the existence of abundant orbits. Instead, we deliberate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-13 Yonghui Xia , Jianglong Xiao , Jianshe Yu

In this paper, we study theoretically the emergence of localized states of vegetation close to the onset of desertification. These states are formed through the locking of vegetation fronts, connecting a uniform vegetation state with a bare…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 P. Parra-Rivas , C. Fernandez-Oto

Due to climatic changes, excessive grazing, and deforestation, semi-arid and arid ecosystems are vulnerable to desertification and land degradation. As aridity increases, vegetation cover often self-organizes into spatial patterns before…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-27 David Pinto-Ramos , Marcel Gabriel Clerc , Abdelkader Makhoute , Mustapha Tlidi

Banded patterns consisting of alternating bare soil and dense vegetation have been observed in water-limited ecosystems across the globe, often appearing along gently sloped terrain with the stripes aligned transverse to the elevation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-16 Punit Gandhi , Lucien Werner , Sarah Iams , Karna Gowda , Mary Silber

Localised radial patterns have been observed in the vegetation of semi-arid ecosystems, often as localised patches of vegetation or in the form of `fairy circles'. We consider stationary localised radial solutions to a reduced model for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Dan J Hill

Dry-land ecosystem has turned into a matter of grave concern, due to growing threat of land degradation and bioproductivity-loss. Self-organized vegetation patterns are a remarkable characteristic of these ecosystems; apart from being…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-27 Mrinal Kanti Pal , Swarup Poria

Close to the critical point associated with nascent of bistability and large wavelength pattern forming regime, {\it the Lifshitz point}, the dynamics of many ecological spatially extended systems can be reduced to a simple partial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-24 M. Tlidi , E. Berrios-Caro , D. Pinto-Ramo , A. G. Vladimirov , M. Clerc

Habitat fragmentation, often driven by human activities, alters ecological landscapes by disrupting connectivity and reshaping species interactions. In such fragmented environments, habitats can be modeled as networks, where individuals…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 James Austin Orgeron , Malbor Asllani

Regular vegetation patterns in semiarid ecosystems are believed to arise from the interplay between long-range competition and facilitation processes acting at smaller distances. We show that, under rather general conditions, long-range…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-24 Ricardo Martinez-Garcia , Justin M. Calabrese , Emilio Hernandez-Garcia , Cristobal Lopez

Dryland vegetation can survive water stress by forming spatial patterns but is often subjected to herbivory as an additional stress that puts it at risk of desertification. Understanding the mutual relationships between vegetation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Joydeep Singha , Hannes Uecker , Ehud Meron

We study the mechanisms of pattern formation for vegetation dynamics in water-limited regions. Our analysis is based on a set of two partial differential equations (PDEs) of reaction-diffusion type for the biomass and water and one ordinary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Konstantinos Spiliotis , Lucia Russo , Francesco Giannino , Constantinos Siettos

Several theoretical models predict that spatial patterning increases ecosystem resilience. However, these predictions rely on simplifying assumptions, such as assuming isotropic and infinitely large ecosystems, and empirical evidence…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-06 David Pinto-Ramos , Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

We present a modified water-vegetation model to investigate the mechanistic relationship between infiltration-soil moisture feedback and vegetation pattern in arid/semi-arid ecosystems. Employing Turing pattern formation theory, we drive…

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