Reinterpreting the relationship between number of species and number of links connects community structure and stability

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• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Nature Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2021-05-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41559-021-01468-2PMID 34059819
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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