Artículo de revista
Gapped vegetation patterns: Crown/root allometry and snaking bifurcation
Date
2020Registration in:
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 133 (2020) 109617
10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109617
Author
Cisternas, Jaime
Escaff, Daniel
Clerc Gavilán, Marcel Gabriel
Lefever, Rene
Tlidi, Mustapha
Institutions
Abstract
Nonuniform spatial distributions of vegetation in scarce environments consist of either gaps, bands often called tiger bush or patches that can be either self-organized or spatially localized in space. When the level of aridity is increased, the uniform vegetation cover develops localized regions of lower biomass. These spatial structures are generically called vegetation gaps. They are embedded in a uniform vegetation cover. The spatial distribution of vegetation gaps can be either periodic or randomly distributed. We investigate the combined influence of the facilitative and the competitive nonlocal interactions between plants, and the role of crow/root allometry, on the formation of gapped vegetation patterns. We characterize first the formation of the periodic distribution of gaps by drawing their bifurcation diagram. We then characterize localized and aperiodic distributions of vegetation gaps in terms of their snaking bifurcation diagram.