{"id":667662,"date":"2020-09-22T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=667662"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:24:29","slug":"ecologists-confirm-alan-turings-theory-for-australian-fairy-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=667662","title":{"rendered":"Ecologists confirm Alan Turing&#039;s theory for Australian fairy circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairy circles are one of nature&#8217;s greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. Researchers have now collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing&#8217;s model explains the striking vegetation patterns of the Australian fairy circles. In addition, the researchers showed that the grasses that make up these patterns act as &#8221;eco-engineers&#8221; to modify their hostile and arid environment, keeping the ecosystem functioning.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/09\/200922102429.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ecologists confirm Alan Turing&#8217;s theory for Australian fairy circles<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairy circles are one of nature&#8217;s greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. Researchers have now collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing&#8217;s model explains the striking vegetation patterns&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}