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Patterns of species association reveal that terrestrial plant and animal communities today are structured differently from communities spanning the 300 million years that preceded large-scale human activity. See Letter p.80

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Figure 1: Species associations.

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Dietl, G. Different worlds. Nature 529, 29–30 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16329

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