Fairy circles reveal the resilience of self-organized salt marshes – Science Advances

INTRODUCTION
Spatial self-organized patterns are widespread across many ecosystems, such as arid ecosystems (13), mussel beds (46), freshwater and salt marshes (79), coral reefs (10), peatlands (11), and sorted patterned grounds (12). Both experiments and theoretical models have highlighted that these self-organizing patterns can reveal the underlying mechanisms driving ecosystem resilience (3). Spatial patterns were proposed as an indicator for ecological resilience that could function as a general…

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