image: Termite mounds (small humps covered by short, green grasses) are shown within a matrix of taller, stemmier grasses in Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve. This photograph was taken from a low-flying hot air balloon. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 6, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. Bonachela at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change." view more
Credit: [Credit: Rob Pringle]