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Gini in the bottle

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An elaborate microcosm study has a message for the wider world: declining distributional equity among species, where the rare become rarer, and the dominant become more dominant, can put ecosystems at risk.

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Figure 1: Implications of Wittebolle and colleagues' results2.

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  1. Shahid Naeem is in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, New York 10027, USA. sn2121@columbia.edu,

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