[meteorite-list] Fairy Circles Found in Western Australia And Eelgrass Fairy Rings Found in Baltic Sea

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:19:42 -0500
Message-ID: <56E8C2BE.9060202_at_att.net>

Some examples of self-organizing features that create natural circles.

Fairy circles found in Australian outback March 15, 2016
by Bob Yirka, Helmholtz Centre For Environmental Research
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=36336&webc_pm=11/2016 ,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315090116.htm , and
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-fairy-circles-australian-outback.html

Dragons, aliens, bugs? Scientists may have solved the mystery
of the desert?s ?fairy circles? by Sarah Kaplan, Washington
Post, March 15, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/15/dragons-aliens-bugs-scientists-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-deserts-fairy-circles/

Once thought to exist only in Namibia, circles spotted 6,200
miles away are helping sort out how these odd features form,
Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mysterious-fairy-circles-have-been-found-western-australia-180958407/

The paper is:

Getzin, S., H. Yizhaq, B. Bell, T. E. Erickson, A. C. Postle, I. Katra,
O. Tzuk, Y. R. Zelnik, K. Wiegand, T. Wiegand, and E. Meron,
2016, Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-
organization theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, March 2016; 201522130 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522130113
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/09/1522130113

Another paper is:

Getzin, S., K. Wiegand, T. Wiegand1, H. Yizhaq, J. von Hardenberg,
and E. Meron. 2015, Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to
study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia. Ecography.
vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1?11.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.00911/abstract

Also, there is:

Mysterious ocean circles off the Baltic coast explained,
University of Southern Denmark, January 30, 2014
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140130102040.htm

The paper is:

Borum, J. Ane L. Raun, H. Hasler-Sheetal, M. O. Pedersen,
O. Pedersen, and M. Holmer, 2013, Eelgrass fairy rings: sulfide as
inhibiting agent. Marine Biology. vol. 161, No. 2, pp. 351-358.
351 DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2340-3
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-013-2340-3

PDF file at:
http://www.bio-web.dk/ole_pedersen/pdf/Marine%20Biology%202014%20(Eegrass%20fairy%20rings).pdf

Yours,

Paul H.
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