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Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity

2020-04-21

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The dilution effect predicts increasing biodiversity to reduce the risk of infection, but the generality of this effect remains unresolved. Because biodiversity loss generates predictable changes in host community competence, we hypothesized that biodiversity loss might drive the dilution effect. We tested this hypothesis by reanalyzing four previously published meta-analyses that came to contradictory conclusions...

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Literature Corpus work: b9483497-929a-5aea-98bf-9a4c3755cd65
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.20.050377

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