grasses

If we were smarter, we'd go back to more native grasses and eating the animals that eat those grasses if we can't eat those grasses ourselves.

We destroy the native grasses, bring in non-native plants to grow non-native animals and then eat those animals.

In re native plants, it is possible to grow a quasi-traditional grass lawn using native grasses, like Buffalograss.

In the American mid-west, the tall prairie grasses would have made it impossible for the tumbleweed to roll any distance.

If it doesn't impact grasses or beans, it can't impact the world's dietary requirements either.

When they allowed limited grazing the cattle trampled the non-native weeds, giving the native grasses and flowers a chance to grow.

Plants were sparse in the desert, there were native grasses too, but no fairy circles.

The forest starts small (which is simple and efficient) from grasses, shrubs to bushes and finally to trees which then become mature.

Homeowner's Association rules or even town planning/zoning may actually prohibit someone from using arid-friendly grasses or perhaps replacements like artificial turf or pavement.

So the timing of this event is more crucial for their reproductive success than for typical trees (which are polycarpic and not grasses).

Consider evergreen grasses that could probably be made to glow, too.

Geladas are the interesting mountain monkeys that eat dry grasses.

Search on "north american native grass" for a window on more appropriate grasses.

"However, yet another recent theory proposes that grasses competing for water and nutrients - limited resources in the Namib desert - create the circles, explaining why they never overlap." Maybe this model could be used to analyze this hypothesis.

How about this: "Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas using systematic observation, controlled experiment, and Bayesian inference":-) The notion that these circles are the result of large-scale self-organization on the part of the grasses (and maybe other creatures) is an intriguing one.

This could be considered an "irrelevant" detail, but one of the major differences is that the American Elk primarily graze as they have a digestive system that allows them to efficiently digest grasses, but the Mule Deer do not: they eat some grass, but primarily "browse" on woody vegetation.