Getzin’s team shows that the polka-dot landscape in Australia can arise from interacting feedback loops where there’s not quite enough rainfall for continuous vegetation. In a short-term positive feedback loop, plants on the edge of a bare spot get a bigger share of the bare spot’s rain, growing bigger themselves and thus capturing even more water. But there’s also long-term negative feedback for plant cover: As plants around the rim of the bare spot suck up more and more water,
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This scenario doesn’t satisfy vegetation ecologist Norbert Jürgens of the University of Hamburg. Among his objections are that soils in African circles retain some rainfall that plant roots don’t draw up. Fairy circles would be filled with plants, he says,
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