Biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem functioning in small-scale, short-term experiments, but do such findings scale up to the larger world? A global study of fossil reefs from the past 500 million years suggests they do.
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Naeem, S., Baker, A. Paradise sustained. Nature 433, 370–371 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/433370a
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