Circle pattern recognition Fairy circles aren’t the only natural phenomenon that can produce round, repeated bare spots in a landscape.

The formation, thought to be as long as a football pitch, appeared in a field near Silbury Hill over two nights at the beginning of August. Some say the pattern is made by mysterious forces and ...

Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (in Emmen, Netherlands) is the only earthwork produced by Smithson still in existence outside the United States. As an integral part of these works, Smithson made films that ...

Landscape ecology is based on the premise that there are strong links between ecological pattern and ecological function and process. Ecological systems are spatially heterogeneous, exhibiting ...