FIGURE 1. The Ecotron experiment creates model multitrophic community assemblages containing plants, herbivores, parasitoids and decomposers in 16 different chambers.

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The diversity–stability debate

Kevin Shear McCann

Nature 405, 228-233(11 May 2000)

doi:10.1038/35012234

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The Ecotron is an ambitious attempt to bridge the scale between field communities and laboratory experiments. (Photographs show the inside of an Ecotron chamber and a technical service corridor between two banks of chambers; courtesy of the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park.)

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