Effects of precipitation intermittency on vegetation patterns in semi-arid landscapes

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2020.132396MaRDI QIDQ2077564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lukas Eigentler, Jonathan A. Sherratt

Publication date 21 February 2022

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10878

zbMATH Keywords

impulsive modelnonlocal dispersalpattern formationprecipitation intermittencysemi-arid landscapes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: Patterns of vegetation are a characteristic feature of many semi-arid regions. The limiting resource in these ecosystems is water, which is added to the system through short and intense rainfall events that cause a pulse of biological processes such as plant growth and seed dispersal. We propose an impulsive model based on the Klausmeier reaction-advection-diffusion system, analytically investigate the effects of rainfall intermittency on the onset of patterns, and augment our results by numerical simulations of model extensions. Our investigation focuses on the parameter region in which a transition between uniform and patterned vegetation occurs. Results show that decay-type processes associated with a low frequency of precipitation pulses inhibit the onset of patterns and that under intermittent rainfall regimes, a spatially uniform solution is sustained at lower total precipitation volumes than under continuous rainfall, if plant species are unable to efficiently use low soil moisture levels. Unlike in the classical setting of a reaction-diffusion model, patterns are not caused by a diffusion-driven instability but by a combination of sufficiently long periods of droughts between precipitation pulses and water diffusion. Our results further indicate that the introduction of pulse-type seed dispersal weakens the effects of changes to width and shape of the plant dispersal kernel on the onset of patterns.

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