How ecological network structures are influenced by species coexistence, community stability and perturbations is a topic of debate. It seems that one overlooked correlate of nested structures is species abundances. See Letter p.449
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Fontaine, C. Abundant equals nested. Nature 500, 411–412 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500411a
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