Peter Stoll, Elke Bergius, Pattern and Process: Competition Causes Regular Spacing of Individuals within Plant Populations, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Apr ...

Regular pattern formation is not limited in nature to just animal coats. Long and short-range processes produce regular patterns in mussel beds, vegetation, and even microorganisms.

"That's a very regular pattern," Turner points out. In contrast, the metamaterials tested in the paper exhibited a wide range of patterns, from regular to highly disordered.

1. It is possible for a single mechanism of population growth to account for regular, random and aggregated populations. If, in a uniform habitat: (a) the spatial pattern of germinating seeds is ...