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Coexistence holes fill a gap in community assembly theory

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The mathematics of counting holes reveals hidden paths to species coexistence and the obstacles that block the way.

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Fig. 1: Alternative assembly hypergraphs, constructed from a collection of four species, and their corresponding Betti numbers.

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Letten, A.D. Coexistence holes fill a gap in community assembly theory. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 1062–1063 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01461-9

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