Modeling the shrub encroachment in the Northern Chihuahuan desert Grasslands using a Cellular Automata model
- Authors: Caracciolo, D.; Istanbulluoglu, ; Noto, L.
- Publication year: 2014
- Type: Abstract in atti di convegno pubblicato in rivista
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/100987
Abstract
Arid grasslands of southwestern North America have changed dramatically over the last 150 years as a result of the shrub encroachment, i.e. the increase in density and biomass of indigenous shrubby plants in grasslands.
