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Nature 440, xiii (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/7080xiiib; Published online 1 March 2006
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To understand how biodiversity works in coral reefs, a team of Australian researchers surveyed reefs in different sites, islands and regions. When the team analysed the data, they found that coral-reef biodiversity doesn't follow the patterns predicted by one model, called neutral ecology, which argues that coral species colonize reefs in a random way.
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