«Along the West Coast, mussels are well -
known ecosystem engineers,» said Bruce Menge, an Oregon State University researcher who studies how climate impacts coastal ecosystems.
«There is absolutely
no doubt that fairy circles are a product of
ecosystem engineering achieved by soil - living termites,» says Norbert Jürgens, an ecologist at the University of Hamburg in Germany, who first proposed in 2013 termites were responsible and thinks this paper fully supports that idea.