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Evolutionary and ecosystem processes have long been treated as distinct. The finding that interactions among plant species cause rapid evolutionary changes that affect ecosystem function suggests that it is time for unification. See Letter p.108

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Figure 1: Evolutionary niche shifts.

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  1. David Tilman and Emilie Snell-Rood are in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.,

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  2. D.T. is also in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.,

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Tilman, D., Snell-Rood, E. Diversity breeds complementarity. Nature 515, 44–45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13929

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