Ecology: death and destruction determine diversity.
Death can be good, bad or indifferent for biodiversity. New work confirms that predators can drive diversification of prey even in homogeneous environments, but suggests that this effect is crucially dependent upon the frequency and intensity of other mass-mortality events.
Brockhurst
Michael A
MA
School of Biological Sciences, Biosciences Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. michael.brockhurst@liverpool.ac.uk
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