Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of Namibia in southwestern Africa, people are captivated by the regular patterns of plant growth that blanket desert and ...

In the southern California foothills and mountains, pronounced and complex topographic gradients support fire regimes that vary over short distances. We used LANDIS, a spatially explicit landscape ...

Aim: Recent changes in land use have led to substantial loss and fragmentation of semi-natural grasslands. We assessed the relative effect of current and historical landscape composition, and ...