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Vulnerable species interactions are important for the stability of mutualistic networks

2019-04-10

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Species are central to ecology and conservation. However, it is the interactions between species that generate the functions on which ecosystems and humans depend. Despite the importance of interactions, we lack an understanding of the risk that their loss poses to ecological communities. Here, we quantify risk as a function of the vulnerability (likelihood of loss) and importance (contribution to network stabilit...

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Literature Corpus work: 15158d8e-02e9-542f-b36d-c56bd67f8a9b
DOI: 10.1101/604868

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