The importance of biodiversity for productive community functioning is emerging as one of a very few general rules in ecology, but evidence has been sparse that it applies in tropical coral reefs—until now.
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Duffy, J.E. Reefs need richness. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 149–150 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0784-z
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