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Nature 446, 29 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446029a; Published online 28 February 2007
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Kevin McCann1
- Kevin McCann is at the Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada.
Abstract
Biodiversity researchers have focused on diversity at the cost of ignoring the networks of interactions between organisms that characterize ecosystems.
That biodiversity is in sharp decline is no longer in question, but scientists still heatedly debate the functional consequences of this loss. Attempts to tackle the problem have mainly involved trying to establish a direct link between species diversity and the sustainability of ecosystems.
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