The sand dunes of the north-western Negev are characterized by a small-scale vegetation pattern (cf. Chap. 8, this volume). Aim of this investigation is to distinguish the standing biomass in the major ecotopes resulting from long-term ecological processes controlling ecotope pattern. Furthermore, we will present a simple numerical approach for modelling the actual standing biomass distribution in the sand dune mosaic.
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Veste, M., Sommer, C., Breckle, S.W., Littmann, T. (2008). Standing Biomass and its Modelling. In: Breckle, SW., Yair, A., Veste, M. (eds) Arid Dune Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_26
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