Spatial heterogeneity can explain the stable coexistence of savanna and forest in South America

In work with a variety of co-authors, Staver and Levin have argued that savanna and forest coexist as alternative stable states with discontinuous changes in density of trees at the boundary. Here we formulate a nonhomogeneous spatial model of the competition between forest and savanna. We prove tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2024-11
Hauptverfasser:	Durrett, Rick, Ma, Ruibo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic models Forests
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