Ecologists have struggled to reconcile what they see in the lab and in the wild. But both views are needed to understand the effects of extinction, finds Virginia Gewin.
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Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.
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Gewin, V. Biodiversity: Rack and field. Nature 460, 944–946 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460944a
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