TY - JOUR
T1 - Fairy circle landscapes under the sea
AU - Ruiz-Reynés, Daniel
AU - Gomila, Damià
AU - Sintes, Tomàs
AU - Hernández-García, Emilio
AU - Marbà, Núria
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: D.R.-R., D.G., T.S., E.H.-G., and N.M. acknowledge financial support from AEI/FEDER [Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, European Union (EU)] (FIS2015-63628-C2-1-R, FIS2015-63628-C2-2-R, and CGL2015-71809-P). C.M.D. was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology through the baseline funding.
PY - 2017/8/2
Y1 - 2017/8/2
N2 - Short-scale interactions yield large-scale vegetation patterns that, in turn, shape ecosystem function across landscapes. Fairy circles, which are circular patches bare of vegetation within otherwise continuous landscapes, are characteristic features of semiarid grasslands. We report the occurrence of submarine fairy circle seascapes in seagrass meadows and propose a simple model that reproduces the diversity of seascapes observed in these ecosystems as emerging from plant interactions within the meadow. These seascapes include two extreme cases, a continuous meadow and a bare landscape, along with intermediate states that range from the occurrence of persistent but isolated fairy circles, or solitons, to seascapes with multiple fairy circles, banded vegetation, and
AB - Short-scale interactions yield large-scale vegetation patterns that, in turn, shape ecosystem function across landscapes. Fairy circles, which are circular patches bare of vegetation within otherwise continuous landscapes, are characteristic features of semiarid grasslands. We report the occurrence of submarine fairy circle seascapes in seagrass meadows and propose a simple model that reproduces the diversity of seascapes observed in these ecosystems as emerging from plant interactions within the meadow. These seascapes include two extreme cases, a continuous meadow and a bare landscape, along with intermediate states that range from the occurrence of persistent but isolated fairy circles, or solitons, to seascapes with multiple fairy circles, banded vegetation, and
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625336
UR - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/8/e1603262
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029173302&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.1603262
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.1603262
M3 - Article
C2 - 28782035
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 3
SP - e1603262
JO - Science advances
JF - Science advances
IS - 8
ER -