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SUBMITTER: Matias MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3539934 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matias Miguel G MG Combe Marine M Barbera Claire C Mouquet Nicolas N
Frontiers in microbiology 20130104
Biodiversity is thought to provide insurance for ecosystem functioning under heterogeneous environments; however, such insurance potential is under serious threat following unprecedented loss of biodiversity. One of the key mechanism underlying ecological insurance is that niche differentiation allows asynchronous responses to fluctuating environments, although the role of different ecological strategies (e.g., specialists vs. generalists) has yet to be formally evaluated. We present here a simp ...[more]