Titlebook: Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semiarid Environments; Ecological Processes David J. Tongway,Christian Valentin,Josiane Seghie Boo

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Soil Biota in Banded Landscapes,oil. The vegetated section acts as a sink area, sequestering soil sediments, water, and nutrients shed from the bare source area immediately above it in the landscape. Water avail-ability is the driving force in patterned landscapes, controlling the structure and the dynamics of the vegetation. Runo

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Vegetation Dynamics: Recruitment and Regeneration in Two-Phase Mosaics,, 1.12, this volume). They are widely distributed globally and have been studied in arid and semiarid climates of Sahelian Africa and the Middle East (White 1971; Wickens and Collier 1971), South Africa (van der Meulen and Morris 1979), Australia (Mabbutt and Fanning 1987; Tongway and Ludwig 1990),

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Multiscale Modeling of Vegetation Bands,ral relations to each other?”) can be answered by examining flows and budgets of energy and matter at the scale of a specific vegetation band or their spatial relationships and aggregation. Both questions correspond to the objectives that (1984) gives to community ecology: “to detect the patterns of

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Banded Landscapes: Ecological Developments and Management Consequences, objectives. This book has been structured into distinct themes ranging from the global distribution of these landscapes to their management strategies to synthesize this dispersed knowledge and facilitate the cross-linking of concepts and information. One of the aims of this volume was to integrate

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Unifying Facets of Information Integrityation in western British Somaliland was that of (1941). Most banded vegetation patterns are difficult to identify on the ground, and their spatial extent was not appreciated until the 1950s when the systematic aerial photographic surveys began (Clos-Arceduc 1956). From the air, the pattern is clearl

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Ping Chen,Xiao Xing,Hao Han,Bing Mao,Li Xieo they work to conserve resources? In addition, we discuss how understanding these processes contributes to advancing heterogeneity theory in landscape ecology generally. Where banded landscapes occur and what forms they take were described in chapter 1. Such landscapes occur in Africa, Australia, a

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Zhiyong Shan,Qiuyue Wang,Xiaofeng Mengd along the contours and alternate along the main slope. As an array of bands in a landscape, the product is a system operating to display unique larger functional properties (Archer and Smeins 1991). The bare (or sparsely covered) soil zone acts as an impluvium because it generates a high proportio