Biodiversity and ecological redundancy

Walker, B. H. (1992). Biodiversity and ecological redundancy. Conservation Biology, 6(1), 18-23.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1992

Link

https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.610018.xmatched

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systems_cybernetics

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• Substitutability
  • Walker (1992) crystallized this distinction in conservation biology, arguing that "ecological redundancy" among species performing similar functions is the substrate that enables substitution, but is not identical to it: redundancy is a population-level property of the community, while substitutability concerns the swap of one species into the role of another.

    This sourceIntroduces the concept of ecological/functional redundancy among species occupying the same functional group; distinguishes population-level redundancy (the substrate) from one-for-one species substitution (the operation) in conservation planning.

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