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The Resilience and Resistance of an Ecosystem to a Collapse of Diversity

Diversity is expected to increase the resilience of ecosystems. Nevertheless, highly diverse ecosystems have collapsed, as did Lake Victoria’s ecosystem of cichlids or Caribbean coral reefs. We try to gain insight to this paradox, by analyzing a simple model of a diverse community where each competi...

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Autores principales: Downing, Andrea S., van Nes, Egbert H., Mooij, Wolf M., Scheffer, Marten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046135