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Corals fail a test of neutrality

Ecologists continue to wrestle with a central question in biodiversity studies — the prediction of species' distributions in various environments. A merger of different theories is the long-term prospect.

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Figure 1: Corals with a difference.

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Pandolfi, J. Corals fail a test of neutrality. Nature 440, 35–36 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440035a

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