Local properties of patterned vegetation: quantifying endogenous and exogenous effects
Local properties of patterned vegetation: quantifying endogenous and exogenous effects
Dryland ecosystems commonly exhibit periodic bands of vegetation, thought to form due to competition between individual plants for heterogeneously distributed water. In this paper, we develop a Fourier method for locally identifying the pattern wavenumber and orientation, and apply it to aerial images from a region of vegetation patterning near …