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NEW! Mesopredatory fish communities keep stable coz diff species populations do diff things at diff times, via functional diversity. Used 197 Indo-Pacific time series. Led by the brill @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social Read it here nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Asynchronous population trends stabilize mesopredatory coral reef fish communities in the face of global change
Biodiversity can underpin stability in communities, allowing them to withstand environmental fluctuations without changes in aggregate properties like total abundance or biomass. We investigated the ...