Highly organized vegetation patterns can be found in a number of landscapes around the
world. In recent years, several authors have investigated the processes underlying …

Spatial patterns are ubiquitous in animate matter. Besides their intricate structure and beauty
they generally play functional roles. The capacity of living systems to remain functional in …

A significant part of this book is based on a graduate course on pattern formation which I
have been teaching during the past two decades in the Physics Department at Ben-Gurion …

Vegetation pattern is one of the typical features in arid or semi-arid areas and thus revealing
the mechanism of vegetation evolution is helpful to understand the behavior of ecosystem …

Self-organization processes leading to pattern formation phenomena are ubiquitous in
nature. Intensive theoretical and experimental research efforts during the past few decades …

Dense vegetation bands aligned to contour levels and alternating at regular intervals with
relatively barren interbands have been reported at the margins of all tropical deserts. Since …

Ecosystem regime shifts are regarded as abrupt global transitions from one stable state to
an alternative stable state, induced by slow environmental changes or by global …

Environmental changes can affect the functioning of an ecosystem directly, through the
response of individual life forms, or indirectly, through interspecific interactions and …

Vegetation patterning in water-limited and other resource-limited ecosystems highlights
spatial self-organization processes as potentially key drivers of community assembly. These …

In hyperarid environments, vegetation is highly fragmented, with plant populations exhibiting
non-random biphasic structures where regions of high biomass density are separated by …