Gradual regime shifts in fairy circles.
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SUBMITTER: Zelnik YR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4603475 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
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Gradual regime shifts in fairy circles.
Zelnik Yuval R YR Meron Ehud E Bel Golan G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150911 40
Large responses of ecosystems to small changes in the conditions--regime shifts--are of great interest and importance. In spatially extended ecosystems, these shifts may be local or global. Using empirical data and mathematical modeling, we investigated the dynamics of the Namibian fairy circle ecosystem as a case study of regime shifts in a pattern-forming ecosystem. Our results provide new support, based on the dynamics of the ecosystem, for the view of fairy circles as a self-organization phe ...[more]
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