Diversity increases the stability of ecosystems.
In 1972, Robert May showed that diversity is detrimental to an ecosystem since, as the number of species increases, the ecosystem is less stable. This is the so-called diversity-stability paradox, which has been derived by considering a mathematical model with linear interactions between the species...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020
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