Diversity favours productivity

Andy Hector ()
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Andy Hector: Andy Hector is at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Nature, 2011, vol. 472, issue 7341, 45-46

Abstract: A consequence of Darwin's 'principle of divergence' is that loss of species can harm the functioning of ecosystems. A study of algal communities in artificial streams suggests that he was right. See Letter p.86

Date: 2011
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