Niche-partitioning of edaphic microbial communities in the Namib Desert gravel plain Fairy Circles.

Endemic to the Namib Desert, Fairy Circles (FCs) are vegetation-free circular patterns surrounded and delineated by grass species. Since first reported the 1970's, many theories have been proposed to explain their appearance, but none provide a fully satisfactory explanation of their origin(s)...

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Main Authors: Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Annelize Pienaar, Alacia Armstrong, Mary Seely, Don A Cowan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4184855?pdf=render