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SUBMITTER: Maire E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083252 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maire Eva E Villéger Sébastien S Graham Nicholas A J NAJ Hoey Andrew S AS Cinner Joshua J Ferse Sebastian C A SCA Aliaume Catherine C Booth David J DJ Feary David A DA Kulbicki Michel M Sandin Stuart A SA Vigliola Laurent L Mouillot David D
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180725 1883
Determining whether many functionally complementary species or only a subset of key species are necessary to maintain ecosystem functioning and services is a critical question in community ecology and biodiversity conservation. Identifying such key species remains challenging, especially in the tropics where many species co-occur and can potentially support the same or different processes. Here, we developed a new community-wide scan (CWS) approach, analogous to the genome-wide scan, to identify ...[more]