Ecology: Death and Destruction Determine Diversity

Michael A. Brockhurst

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.048

Ecology: Death and Destruction Determine Diversity

Michael A. Brockhurst^*

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Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R512-R514
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.048
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2007

Keywords

Ecology
Ecosystem
Predatory behaviour
Animals

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