Advection and autocatalysis as organizing principles for banded vegetation patterns

DOI10.1007/S00332-018-9486-6zbMATH Open1416.35282arXiv1802.04622OpenAlexW2964239977MaRDI QIDQ2633562FDOQ2633562

Authors: Richard Samuelson, Zachary Singer, Jasper Weinburd, Arnd Scheel 

Publication date: 9 May 2019

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We motivate and analyze a simple model for the formation of banded vegetation patterns. The model incorporates a minimal number of ingredients for vegetation growth in semi-arid landscapes. It allows for comprehensive analysis and sheds new light onto phenomena such as the migration of vegetation bands and the interplay between their upper and lower edges. The key ingredient is the formulation as a closed reaction-diffusion system, thus introducing a conservation law that both allows for analysis and provides ready intuition and understanding through analogies with characteristic speeds of propagation and shock waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04622

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zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawstraveling wavesheteroclinic bifurcationundercompressive shocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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• Predicting the emergence of localised dihedral patterns in models for dryland vegetation
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Uses Software

• AUTO-07P

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