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Speciation affects ecosystems

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Evidence that speciation and adaptive radiation can change the properties of an ecosystem is a reminder of the pressing need to integrate ecosystems science and evolutionary biology.

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Figure 1: Harmon and colleagues' experiments1.

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  1. Ole Seehausen is at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, and the Eawag Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Center of Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Seestrasse 79, CH-6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland. ole.seehausen@eawag.ch ,

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