Extinction drives a discontinuous temporal pattern of species-area relationships in a microbial microcosm system
W. Deng, N. Li, C.-Z. Zhang, R. An, X.-Y. Yang, W. Xiao
This study shows that extinction drives a temporally discontinuous species-area relationship in microbial microcosms, with small-scale extinctions promoting stability and mass extinctions resetting the system.
bioRxiv · Nov 11, 2022Ecology