Biodiversity & Ecology
Volume 7
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Pages 1-374, December 2022
Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert - Ecosystem engineering by subterranean social insects,
edited by Ute Schmiedel and Manfred Finckh
DOI: 10.7809/b-e.vol_07 Order information
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OA Front cover
Pages C1
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OA Title and imprint
Pages 1-3
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OA Table of Contents
Pages 4-7
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OA Editorial
Ute Schmiedel*, Manfred Finckh
Pages 8-9 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00362 | Type of article: Editoral
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OA Acknowledgements
Pages 10-11
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OA About this book
Pages 12
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OA Abstract
Pages 13
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1 Description
OA What is a fairy circle?
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 14-17 | Type of article: Book chapter 1
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2 Namib
The Namib Desert and the Namib Fairy Circles
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 18-24 | Type of article: Book chapter 2
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3 Morphology
Morphology and vegetation features of the Namib Fairy Circles
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 25-35 | Type of article: Book chapter 3
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4 Debate
The debate on the origin of Fairy Circles in the Namib and the role of termites as their originators
Norbert Jürgens, with contributions by Alexander Gröngröft, Gunter, F., Henschel, J.R., Oldeland, J., Oncken, I., Picker, M.D.
Pages 36-75 | Type of article: Book chapter 4
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OA Not one but several: Morphological diversity within the sand termite
Felicitas Gunter*, Jens Oldeland, Joh R. Henschel, Mike D. Picker & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 46-51 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00363 | Type of article: Book chapter 4.4
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OA Phylogeny of sand termites
Felicitas Gunter*, Joh R. Henschel, Mike D. Picker, Jens Oldeland & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 51-54 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00364 | Type of article: Book chapter 4.4
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OA Reproduction of sand termites and local genetic patterns
Felicitas Gunter*, Jens Oldeland, Joh R. Henschel, Mike D. Picker & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 54-55 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00365 | Type of article: Book chapter 4.4
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A new species of harvester termites, causator of the giant fairy circles near the village Baba in the Northern Namib in Angola
Norbert Jürgens*, Felicitas Gunter, Jens Oldeland, Alex Groengroeft, Joh R. Henschel, Imke Oncken, & Mike D. Picker
Pages 63-75 | Type of article: Book chapter 4.5
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5 Life history
The life history of Namib Fairy Circles
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 76-113 | Type of article: Book chapter 5
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6 Diversity
Diversity: a journey through landscapes of the Namib region characterized by different fairy circles
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 114-165 | Type of article: Book chapter 6
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7 Biogeography
Biogeography and ecology of Namib Fairy Circles: important environmental variables and processes
Norbert Jürgens, with contributions by Alexander Gröngröft, Jens Oldeland
Pages 166-210 | Type of article: Book chapter 7
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Climatic diversity of fairy circle landscapes
Norbert Jürgens* & Jens Oldeland
Pages 178-179 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00366 | Type of article: Book chapter 7.3
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Soil properties of fairy circle landscapes
Alexander Gröngröft* & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 180-185 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00367 | Type of article: Book chapter 7.4
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OA Soil moisture and hydrology of fairy circles
Alexander Gröngröft* & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 186-198 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00368 | Type of article: Book chapter 7.5
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8 Organisms
Organisms and their interactions found on, underneath and around fairy circles
Norbert Jürgens, with contributions by Alicia Geppert, Felicitas Gunter, Joh R. Henschel, Katharina J. Huber, Jörg Overmann, Javier Pascual, Johannes Sikorski, Andrey Yurkov
Pages 213-273 | Type of article: Book chapter 8
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Animals
Joh R. Henschel* & Norbert Jürgens
Pages 229-249 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00369 | Type of article: Book chapter 8.2
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OA Evidence for Psammotermes allocerus termite nests as refugium for plant pathogenic microbes: a contribution to generation and maintenance of fairy circles in the Namib Desert
Andrey Yurkov*, Javier Pascual, Johannes Sikorski, Alicia Geppert, Felicitas Gunter, Katharina J. Huber, Norbert Jürgens & Jörg Overmann
Pages 254-273 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00370 | Type of article: Book chapter 8.3
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9 Patterns
Patterns resembling fairy circles
Norbert Jürgens, with contributions by Felicitas Gunter
Pages 274-299 | Type of article: Book chapter 9
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OA Bare areas caused by Hodotermes mossambicus in the northern Namib Desert
Norbert Jürgens* & Felicitas Gunter
Pages 286-291 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00371 | Type of article: Book chapter 9.5
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10 Heuweltjies
Other regular landscape structures in southern Africa created by termite-driven ecosystem engineering
Norbert Jürgens, with contributions by Joseph R. McAuliffe, Felicitas Gunter, Jens Oldeland, Rasmus Revermann, Priscilla Sichone
Pages 300-351 | Type of article: Book chapter 10
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OA “Heuweltjies” – the “Little Hills” of western South Africa
Joseph R. McAuliffe
Pages 302-339 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00372 | Type of article: Book chapter 10.1
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OA Macrotermes natalensis termite colonies in seasonally flooded savannas
Norbert Jürgens*, Priscilla Sichone, Rasmus Revermann, Felicitas Gunter, Jens Oldeland
Pages 340-348 | Article first published online: 2022-12-15 | DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00373 | Type of article: Book chapter 10.2
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Macrotermes michaelseni mounds in the thornbush savanna of Namibia
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 349-351 | Type of article: Book chapter 10.3
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11 Beyond
Beyond termites: an outlook on linear vegetation patterns in the Namib Desert
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 352-360 | Type of article: Book chapter 11
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12 Conclusions
OA Concluding remarks on Namib Fairy Circles, their origin, phenology, ecology, dynamics, ecosystem function and similarities to other vegetation patterns
Norbert Jürgens
Pages 362-363 | Type of article: Book chapter 12
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OA Methods
Pages 364-365
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OA Glossary and abbreviations
Pages 366
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OA Bibliography
Pages 367-373
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OA Institutional affiliations
Pages 374
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OA Back cover
Pages C4
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