Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment

Yachi, S., & Loreau, M. (1999). Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(4), 1463-1468.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1999

DOI

10.1073/pnas.96.4.1463

Link

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.4.1463

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biology_ecology

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Primes

• Diversity
  • This redundancy is not efficient (it means keeping "backup" capacity), but it is robust, a mechanism Yachi and Loreau (1999) formalized as the "insurance hypothesis" for biodiversity in fluctuating environments.

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