Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly

RM Callaway, E Meron - Physics of Life Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegetation patterning in water-limited and other resource-limited ecosystems highlights
spatial self-organization processes as potentially key drivers of community assembly. These …

Inhibitory and toxic effects of extracellular self‐DNA in litter: a mechanism for negative plant–soil feedbacks?

S Mazzoleni, G Bonanomi, G Incerti… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–soil negative feedback (NF) is recognized as an important factor affecting plant
communities. The objectives of this work were to assess the effects of litter phytotoxicity and …

[PDF][PDF] Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems

MB Eppinga, WH Van der Putten, JD Bever - Physics of Life Reviews, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Analysis of spatial structure in ecosystems provides an opportunity to identify ecological
processes and species interactions that are key to the system's functioning [90, 79, 46, 58 …

[HTML][HTML] Rhombic and hexagonal pattern formation in 2D hyperbolic reaction–transport systems in the context of dryland ecology

G Grifó, G Consolo, C Curró, G Valenti - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper the formation of rhombic and hexagonal Turing patterns in bidimensional
hyperbolic reaction–transport systems is addressed in the context of dryland ecology. To this …

Analytical detection of stationary turing pattern in a predator-prey system with generalist predator

S Dey, M Banerjee, S Ghorai - Mathematical Modelling of Natural …, 2022 - mmnp-journal.org
A prey-predator model with Holling type-II functional response and a generalist predator
exhibits complex dynamics in response to parameter variation. Generalist predators …

Self-organized sulfide-driven traveling pulses shape seagrass meadows

D Ruiz-Reynés, E Mayol, T Sintes… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Seagrasses provide multiple ecosystem services and act as intense carbon sinks in coastal
regions around the globe but are threatened by multiple anthropogenic pressures, leading …

[HTML][HTML] Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal

G Consolo, G Grifó, G Valenti - Ecological Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This manuscript tackles the study of vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects
and secondary seed dispersal. To achieve this goal, an hyperbolic extension of the classical …

[HTML][HTML] Stationary and oscillatory patterned solutions in three-compartment reaction–diffusion systems: Theory and application to dryland ecology

G Consolo, C Curró, G Grifó, G Valenti - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
This work aims at elucidating the conditions under which stationary and oscillatory periodic
patterns may emerge in a class of one-dimensional three-compartments reaction–diffusion …

Metastability as a coexistence mechanism in a model for dryland vegetation patterns

L Eigentler, JA Sherratt - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2019 - Springer
Vegetation patterns are a ubiquitous feature of water-deprived ecosystems. Despite the
competition for the same limiting resource, coexistence of several plant species is commonly …

[HTML][HTML] Turing patterns in hyperbolic reaction-transport vegetation models with cross-diffusion

C Currò, G Grifò, G Valenti - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the pattern formation process in arid environments on flat terrains is
investigated. In particular, a class of one-dimensional hyperbolic reaction-transport …