Contrasting Global Patterns of Spatially Periodic Fairy Circles and Regular Insect Nests in Drylands

A multi-scale study of Australian fairy circles using soil excavations and drone-based image analysis

(2019) Stephan Getzin et al.   Ecosphere

Beyond Migration: Causes and Consequences of Nomadic Animal Movements

(2019) Claire S. Teitelbaum et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Unusual Namibian fairy circle patterns in heterogeneous and atypical environments

(2019) Stephan Getzin et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Aeolian sand sorting and megaripple formation

(2018) Marc Lämmel et al.   Nature Physics

From Patterns to Function in Living Systems: Dryland Ecosystems as a Case Study

(2018) Ehud Meron   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds

(2018) Stephen J. Martin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

(2017) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   NATURE

The magic of fairy circles: Built or created?

(2017) Dork Sahagian   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Ecohydrological interactions within “fairy circles” in the Namib Desert: Revisiting the self-organization hypothesis

(2017) Sujith Ravi et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Unique Microbial Phylotypes in Namib Desert Dune and Gravel Plain Fairy Circle Soils

(2016) Andries J. van der Walt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pulsing hydrology and topography determine the structure and spatial distribution of Cubitermes mounds in a savanna ecosystem

(2016) Justice Muvengwi et al.   CATENA

Edaphic properties enable facilitative and competitive interactions resulting in fairy circle formation

(2016) Michael D. Cramer et al.   ECOGRAPHY

An evaluation of the state of spatial point pattern analysis in ecology

(2016) Eduardo Velázquez et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-organization theory

(2016) Stephan Getzin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Weaknesses in the plant competition hypothesis for fairy circle formation and evidence supporting the sand termite hypothesis

(2015) NORBERT JUERGENS et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Clarifying misunderstandings regarding vegetation self-organisation and spatial patterns of fairy circles in Namibia: a response to recent termite hypotheses

(2015) STEPHAN GETZIN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Termite mounds as dominant land forms in semiarid northeastern Brazil

(2015) Roy Richard Funch   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Gradual regime shifts in fairy circles

(2015) Yuval R. Zelnik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The occurrence of triterpenoids from Euphorbia gummifera inside the fairy circles of Garub in the southern Namibian pro-desert

(2015) J.J.M. Meyer et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

An ecological engineer maintains consistent spatial patterning, with implications for community-wide effects

(2015) R. R. Dibner et al.   Ecosphere

Experiments Testing the Causes of Namibian Fairy Circles

(2015) Walter R. Tschinkel   PLoS One

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

(2014) Stephan Getzin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Spatial variability and abiotic determinants of termite mounds throughout a savanna catchment

(2014) Andrew B. Davies et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Herbivory by subterranean termite colonies and the development of fairy circles in SW Namibia

(2014) KELLY VLIEGHE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

On tests of spatial pattern based on simulation envelopes

(2014) Adrian Baddeley et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The spatial distribution of nests of the harvester ant Messor barbarus in dryland cereals

(2014) J. M. Blanco-Moreno et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Are mima-like mounds the consequence of long-term stability of vegetation spatial patterning?

(2014) Michael D. Cramer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Niche-Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities in the Namib Desert Gravel Plain Fairy Circles

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Ramond et al.   PLoS One

Are Namibian “Fairy Circles” the Consequence of Self-Organizing Spatial Vegetation Patterning?

(2013) Michael D. Cramer et al.   PLoS One

The Biological Underpinnings of Namib Desert Fairy Circles

(2013) N. Juergens   SCIENCE

A systematic comparison of summary characteristics for quantifying point patterns in ecology

(2012) Thorsten Wiegand et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Ants and the enigmatic Namibian fairy circles - cause and effect?

(2012) MIKE D. PICKER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Life Cycle and Life Span of Namibian Fairy Circles

(2012) Walter R. Tschinkel   PLoS One

The Ecology of Nest Movement in Social Insects

(2011) Terrence P. McGlynn   Annual Review of Entomology

Pattern-formation approach to modelling spatially extended ecosystems

(2011) Ehud Meron   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Evidence for a geochemical origin of the mysterious circles in the Pro-Namib desert

(2011) Y. Naudé et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Pattern-oriented modelling: a 'multi-scope' for predictive systems ecology

(2011) V. Grimm et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial Patterns of Grass Seedling Recruitment Imply Predation and Facilitation by Harvester Ants

(2010) N. Nicolai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Multi-scale pattern analysis of a mound-building termite species

(2010) C. Grohmann et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The Foraging Tunnel System of the Namibian Desert Termite,Baucaliotermes hainesi

(2010) Walter R. Tschinkel   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Magnetoreception in eusocial insects: an update

(2010) E. Wajnberg et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Factors and mechanisms explaining spatial heterogeneity: a review of methods for insect populations

(2010) Fabrice Vinatier et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns

(2009) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   ECOLOGY

Spacing patterns of an Acacia tree in the Kalahari over a 61-year period: How clumped becomes regular and vice versa

(2008) Aristides Moustakas et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

SPATIAL DECOUPLING OF FACILITATION AND COMPETITION AT THE ORIGIN OF GAPPED VEGETATION PATTERNS

(2008) Nicolas Barbier et al.   ECOLOGY

Heterogeneity influences spatial patterns and demographics in forest stands

(2008) Stephan Getzin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

(2008) Max Rietkerk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mysterious circles in the Namib Desert

(2007) W.J. Jankowitz et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY