Positive feedbacks promote power-law clustering of Kalahari vegetation

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2007-09-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature06060PMID 17851523
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