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Ruiz-Reynés, DanielGomila, Damià
Sintes, Tomàs
Hernández-García, Emilio

Marbà, Núria
Duarte, Carlos M.

KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionMarine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
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2017-08-02Online Publication Date
2017-08-02Print Publication Date
2017-08Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625336
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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, andCitation
Ruiz-Reynés D, Gomila D, Sintes T, Hernández-García E, Marbà N, et al. (2017) Fairy circle landscapes under the sea. Science Advances 3: e1603262. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603262.Sponsors
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.Journal
Science AdvancesPubMed ID
28782035arXiv
arXiv:1709.01072Additional Links
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/8/e1603262ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1126/sciadv.1603262
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