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SUBMITTER: Jones FAM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030599 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jones Faith A M FAM Magurran Anne E AE
Biology letters 20180601 6
Ecological assemblages are inherently uneven, with numerically dominant species contributing disproportionately to ecosystem services. Marked biodiversity change due to growing pressures on the world's ecosystems is now well documented. However, the hypothesis that dominant species are becoming relatively more abundant has not been tested. We examined the prediction that the dominance structure of contemporary communities is shifting, using a meta-analysis of 110 assemblage timeseries. Changes i ...[more]