Biodiversity & Ecology

Journal of the Division Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants , Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg.

6 Diversity Book chapter 6

Diversity: a journey through landscapes of the Namib region characterized by different fairy circles

Norbert Jürgens

*Corresponding author contact: norbert.juergens@uni-hamburg.de

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Biodiversity & Ecology (Biodivers. Ecol.)

Volume 7, pages 114-165, November 2022

Abstract: Chapter 6 off ers a gallery of images and descriptions of the diversity of fairy circle types and characteristic landscape patterns. In some regions, fairy circles cover vast areas with a regular spatial pattern while in other landscapes fairy circles are restricted to specifi c habitats which occupy only a limited proportion of the area. The rich information provided in Chapter 6 will also serve as a library for focussed analyses of the environmental drivers of fairy circles, in Chapter 7. This chapter also serves the goal to give those readers who never travelled the Namib Desert a more realistic impression of the diversity and the extreme environments of the Namib.

Suggested citation:
Jürgens, N. (2022): Diversity: a journey through landscapes of the Namib region characterized by different fairy circles – In: Schmiedel, U. & Finckh, M. (Eds.) Fairy circles of the Namib Desert – Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects. – Biodiversity & Ecology 7: 114-165.