Many animals get their external marking—like, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. Scientists normally explain the spectacular ...

During my Ph.D., my advisors began drafting a book. I patiently awaited the tome on the deep sea biodiversity. My wait is no longer. Rex and Etter’s Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale is finally ...

Our brains can distinguish highly similar patterns, thanks to a process called pattern separation. How our brains separate patterns is, however, not yet fully understood. Using a full-scale computer ...

The spatial pattern of trees in forests often combines different types of structure (regularity, clustering or randomness) at different scales. Taking species or size into account leads to marked ...

The Douglas fir is a tall iconic pine tree in Western North America forming a forest that winds unbroken from the Western spine of British Columbia all the way to the Mexican cordillera. The ...