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On Vegetation Clustering, Localized Bare Soil Spots and Fairy Circles

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We present a model and nonlinear analysis which account for the clustering behaviors of arid vegetation ecosystems, the formation of localized bare soil spots (sometimes also called fairy circles) in these systems and the attractive or repulsive interactions governing their spatio-temporal evolution. Numerical solutions of the model closely agree with analytical predictions.

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  1. Optique Nonlinéare Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Campus de la Plaine, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

    M. Tlidi

  2. Service de Chimie Physique et Biologie Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Campus de la Plaine, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

    R. Lefever

  3. Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Mohrenstrasse 39, D-10117 Berlin, Germany

    A. Vladimirov

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Tlidi, M., Lefever, R., Vladimirov, A. (2008). On Vegetation Clustering, Localized Bare Soil Spots and Fairy Circles. In: Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 751. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78217-9_15

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