Sentences with phrase «for vegetation patterning»

My paper concerns a relatively simple model for vegetation patterning, and I have been able to exploit this simplicity to obtain detailed mathematical predictions,» explains Sherratt.

Not exact matches

«There is not enough water to sustain a complete coverage with continuous grass vegetation, which leads to the gap pattern,» explains Stephan Getzin, an ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the new work.

The scientific literature contains two different mechanisms for a similar pattern — one stems from vegetation self - organizing in response to limited rainfall, and the other results from bustling termite mounds improving the lives of nearby plants.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

The highest potential for a causal mechanism of fairy circles probably lies in some form of landscape scale, self - organizing process similar to those proposed by Rietkerk et al., Couteron and LeJeune, and Tlidi et al. [11]--[16] as patterning vegetation in a range of landscapes, especially arid ones.

When you look at works such as Sobel's untitled 1944 painting shown, the temptation is not to see the vegetation like drip pattern blending with the figure as much as to see the dripped paint obscuring the figure — just as circumstances conspired to obscure the figure of Janet Sobel for more than half a century.

The paintings refer to patterns and colors found in nature: yellow for light; blue to water; and the mixing of the two creates green, the color of vegetation; circles are cycles of the moon and sun; triangles are trees and mountains.

The cascading flurry of paper patterns emerging from origami pipes suspended from the gallery ceiling will tell the story of a community ensnared in a five - year drought, but is still hopeful for a reemergence of vegetation.

Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.