Laura Turnbull

TL;DR: This commentary aims to show how a better representation of connectivity in models can be achieved, by considering the sorts of landscape features present, and whether these features can be represented explicitly in the model spatial structure, or must be represented implicitly at the subgrid scale.

TL;DR: This chapter explores different modelling approaches that have been developed to simulate pattern formation, and ecological and geomorphic processes and how they provide a foundation upon which to develop much needed ecogeomorphic modelling tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the relationship between scale, process and pattern in drylands and many of these relationships involve cross-scale interactions, which may also be present at different scales.

TL;DR: The relationship between network structure and dynamics is one of the most extensively investigated problems in the theory of complex systems of recent years as discussed by the authors, and a major strategy of investigating this relationship is the quantitative comparison of a representation of network architecture with a (network) representation of the dynamics (functional connectivity).

TL;DR: This concluding chapter identifies key challenges for land-degradation studies in drylands, and presents the conceptual and methodological advances that need to be made to overcome these challenges.