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Nature 460, 334-335 (16 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/460334a; Published online 15 July 2009

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Ecology: Towards a theory of biodiversity

Jayanth R. Banavar1 & Amos Maritan2

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Models of ecological communities that incorporate mutation and spatial dispersal can yield results that go some way to explaining observations. A further step is to add sexual reproduction to the mix.

Humans are wreaking havoc on the planet1, 2, and the result is a continuing mass extinction of species. Yet there is little understanding of the various ecological effects of this loss of biodiversity.

  1. Jayanth R. Banavar is in the Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
    Email: banavar@psu.edu
  2. Amos Maritan is in the Department of Physics, University of Padova, Padova 35100, Italy.
    Email: maritan@pd.infn.it

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