Tree‐grass competition in space and time: Insights from a simple cellular automata model based on ecohydrological dynamics

By Mark T. van Wijk, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Tree–grass coexistence in the Brazilian cerrado: demographic consequences of environmental instability (2006, background): “…al. (2004) have been developed both to explore theoretical mechanisms of tree–grass coexistence (e.g. Menaut et al., 1990; Jeltsch et al., 1996, 1998; Higgins et al., 2000a; van Wijk & Rodriguez-Iturbe, 2002) and in seeking to provide management advice for policy makers (e.g. Gambiza et al., 2000).”
Water and nutrients alter herbaceous competitive effects on tree seedlings in a semi‐arid savanna (2009, background): “In arid and semi-arid (dry) savannas, seedling recruitment apparently regulates woody cover (Higgins et al. 2000; van Wijk & Rodriguez-Iturbe 2002; Sankaran et al. 2004), although not in all species (Seymour 2008).”
An idealized model for tree–grass coexistence in savannas: the role of life stage structure and fire disturbances (2009, background): “…and recruitment were indicated as the key processes explaining coexistence in savannas by ‘demographic-bottleneck’ models, which introduced the demographic structure (Jeltsch et al. 1996, 1998; Higgins, Bond & Trollope 2000; Jeltsch, Weber & Grimm 2000; van Wijk & Rodriguez-Iturbe 2002).”
A patch-dynamics approach to savanna dynamics and woody plant encroachment – Insights from an arid savanna (2006, background): “It takes very little to create patchiness in spatially explicit simulation models of savanna dynamics (van Wijk and Rodriguez-Iturbe, 2002).”
Modeling plant–water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale (2016, background): “There are a few ecohydrological models that aim to reproduce this specific behavior, and they are especially developed to study vegetation patterns in semi-arid environments.(265,266,324) These models typically compromise the rigorousness of process description in terms of water, energy, and carbon ”
A Representation of Variable Root Distribution in Dynamic Vegetation Models (2003, background): “Root distribution, among other factors, plays an important role in determining various ecosystem processes including vegetation distribution (Peters, 2002), preferential water use (Scott et al., 2000), and coexistence of different vegetation types (van Wijk and Rodriguez-Iturbe, 2002).”
Tree–grass coexistence in savannas revisited – insights from an examination of assumptions and mechanisms invoked in existing models (2004, background): “These models represent a departure from traditional equilibrium models of savannas in that the emphasis is on demographic, rather than physiological mechanisms (Higgins et al. 2000; van Wijk & Rodriguez-Iturbe 2002).”