Regime shifts in bistable water-stressed ecosystems due to amplification of stochastic rainfall patterns

We develop a framework that casts the point water-vegetation dynamics under stochastic rainfall forcing as a continuous-time random walk (CTRW), which yields an evolution equation for the joint probability density function (PDF) of soil-moisture and biomass. We find regime shifts in the steady-state...

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Main Authors: Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis (Contributor), Dentz, Marco (Author), Juanes, Ruben (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2015-06-01T13:59:22Z.
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