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Columnar jointing in the Devils Postpile, an imperfect hexagonal lattice, and commonalities with other natural and constructed features
Columns in the Devils Postpile, eastern California, occur in hexagonal domains stitched together by chains and clusters of pentagons and heptagons, a geometrical pattern, also found in honeycombs and graphene, that forms a centroidal Voronoi tessellation.
White Mountains high-elevation plant communities and their response to climate change
Treeline is increasing and is dominated by limber pine ‘leapfrogging’ over the more common Great Basin bristlecone pine; at the tops of mountains, there has been surprising climatic heterogeneity over short distances which may have led to the observed limited change in species richness over about 20 years.
Arthropod assemblages in alpine fell-fields and subalpine wetlands, and influences of biotic and abiotic drivers
Arthropod assemblages in wetlands were far more diverse and abundant than in fell-fields across all taxa; vegetation structure and abiotic factors were both important predictors of assemblage structure.