Ecology: compensating for extinction.
Food web interactions allow communities to compensate for the loss of species. Compensation of this kind may reshuffle communities so that today's resilient species are tomorrow's vulnerable species, creating a false impression of ecosystem stability following the first wave of extinction.
The Nature Conservancy, ESI, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA. pkareiva@tnc.org
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D044822:Biodiversity; D018533:Biomass; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D020387:Food Chain; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013045:Species Specificity