Theoretical Study on Self-Organization of Vegetation Patterns Triggered by Water Resource in Deposited Sediment Layer

Table 1

Interpretation of the symbols used in (1a) and (1b).

Symbol	Interpretation	Units	Value/Range
	Sediment water	Cm	-
	vegetation biomass	g m^−2	-
	Time	Day	-
,	Space	M	-
	Maximal growth rate of the sediment water (layer) at	cm day^−1	(0, 0.01]
	Maximal thickness of the sediment water (layer)	Cm	5
	specific sediment water loss due to evaporation	day^−1	0.05
	Uptake of the sediment water	m^4 g^−2 day^−1	0.3
	Conversion of water uptake into vegetation biomass	g m^−2 cm^−1	10
	Mortality of the vegetation biomass	day^−1	0.02
	Movement of the sediments along the downslope direction on hillslopes	m day^−1	10 or 0.001
	Diffusive coefficient of sediment water	m^2 day^−1	0.2
	Plant dispersal	m^2 day^−1	0.01

A group of feasible values or ranges of the parameters are given referring to former empirical or theoretical studies in the literature [7–9, 21, 36–38].