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Localized vegetation patches: A self-organized response to resource scarcity

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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.010901

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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.

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