If you've ever traveled through drylands, you may have noticed striking vegetation patterns—stripes, spots, or rings—scattered across otherwise barren landscapes. From "tiger bush" in West Africa to ...

LAS VEGAS – Chia seeds sprouted in trays have experimentally confirmed a mathematical model proposed by computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing decades ago. The model describes how patterns might ...

Many complex systems, from microbial communities to mussel beds to drylands, display striking self-organized clusters. According to theoretical models, these groupings play an important role in how an ...

This Special Feature of the Journal of Vegetation Science contains ten contributions from the 56th Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), which was held in Tartu, ...

As global warming intensifies, the greening of vegetation in the mid–high latitudes of Eurasia has been accelerating. Vegetation greening not only affects regional climate but is also closely linked ...

Question: How important is the effect of micro-relief and vegetation type on the characteristics of vascular plants and bryophytes in low-centred polygons? Location: Siberian Arctic, Russia. Methods: ...

Tokyo, Japan – The exchange of water and heat between the Earth and its atmosphere determines climate zones and ecosystems, which in turn influence where essential human activities take place. While ...