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Productivity of Patterned Vegetation

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Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semiarid Environments

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 149))

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In the course of this book, the patterning of banded vegetation has been described at various scales (chapters 1 and 4), a theory of its genesis has been proposed (chapters 2 and 3), and many of the internal processes of patterns have been summarized (chapters 5 and 11).

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  1. David O. Freudenberger
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  1. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, GPO Box 284, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

    David J. Tongway

  2. Institut de Recherche pou Développement (IRD), 213 rue La Fayette, F-75 480, Paris cedex 10, France

    Christian Valentin

  3. Laboratoire d’étude du Comportement des Sols Cultivés (LCSC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 5045, F-34 032, Montpellier cedex 1, France

    Josiane Seghieri

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Freudenberger, D.O., Hiernaux, P. (2001). Productivity of Patterned Vegetation. In: Tongway, D.J., Valentin, C., Seghieri, J. (eds) Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semiarid Environments. Ecological Studies, vol 149. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0207-0_10

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