The biological underpinnings of Namib desert fairy circles

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6127, 2013, Pages 1618-1621

  Juergens, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; SURVIVAL; TERMITE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FAIRY CIRCLE; HUMIDITY; ISOPTERA; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOTERMES ALLOCERUS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VOLATILIZATION;

NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA;

ISOPTERA; PSAMMOTERMES ALLOCERUS;

RAIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHTS; ISOPTERA; RAIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; VOLATILIZATION; WATER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875518273     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1222999     Document Type: Article

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