Plant clonal morphologies and spatial patterns as self-organized responses to resource-limited environments
Plant clonal morphologies and spatial patterns as self-organized responses to resource-limited environments
We propose here to interpret and model peculiar plant morphologies (cushions and tussocks) observed in the Andean Altiplano as localized structures. Such structures resulting in a patchy, aperiodic aspect of the vegetation cover are hypothesized to self-organize thanks to the interplay between facilitation and competition processes occurring at the scale …