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Reefs need richness

Nature Ecology & Evolution volume 3, pages 149–150 (2019)Cite this article

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The importance of biodiversity for productive community functioning is emerging as one of a very few general rules in ecology, but evidence has been sparse that it applies in tropical coral reefs—until now.

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