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Revisiting Theron’s hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles after four decades: Euphorbias are not the cause

BACKGROUND: The Euphorbia hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles (FCs) in Namibia dates back to 1979. It proposes that the remains of decaying shrubs would induce an allelopathic interaction with the grasses and thereby cause bare-soil FCs. Here, we investigated this hypothesis based on revisitin...

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Autores principales: Getzin, Stephan, Nambwandja, Ailly, Holch, Sönke, Wiegand, Kerstin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8162014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34049497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01834-5