Ecological communities are dauntingly complex. Nonetheless, ecologists gallantly persevere in eliciting insights about the factors that govern the behaviour and persistence of these messy, tangled webs.
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M. W. MCCOY, UNIV. FLORIDA
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Holt, R. Asymmetry and stability. Nature 442, 252–253 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442252a
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