Environmental Science
3 years ago

Some species thrive while others struggle: new insights into ecological communities.

Community Ecology
Some species flourish when many do not: a pattern in data on ecological communities
G. Straatsma, Edwin T. H. M. Peeters, Egbert H. van Nes

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The researchers looked at data from 12 different sets to see if the number of species in a community is related to the total number of organisms in the samples. They found that some species thrive even when many others do not, and this pattern is consistent across different sets. This suggests that environmental factors play a role in shaping the abundance of species in ecological communities.