Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in
particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …

Once seen as anomalous, facilitative interactions among plants and their importance for
community structure and functioning are now widely recognized. The growing body of …

Soil erosion is a threat to food security, especially in regions where the area of arable land is
shrinking dramatically because of soil degradation. Research on soil erosion expanded …

Regular spatial patterns of vegetation are a common sight in drylands. Their formation is a
population-level response to water stress that increases water availability for the few via …

How populations distribute in both space and time is one of the key issues in ecological
systems, which can characterize the relationship between populations, space–time structure …

Since seeds are the principle means by which plants move across the landscape, the final
fate of seeds plays a fundamental role in the assemblage, functioning and dynamics of plant …

Plant–plant interactions are driven by environmental conditions, evolutionary relationships
(ER) and the functional traits of the plants involved. However, studies addressing the relative …

Drylands are experiencing an overall increase in aridity that is predicted to intensify in the
future due to climate change. This may cause changes in the structure and functioning of …

Vegetation pattern dynamics is a pivotal research domain in ecology, which can reveal the
impact of the non-uniform distribution of vegetation on ecosystem structure and function …

In many semi-arid environments, vegetation cover is sparse, and is self-organized into large-
scale spatial patterns. In particular, banded vegetation is typical on hillsides. Mathematical …