Publication Date:
1999-11-24
Description:
Theory predicts that systems that are more diverse should be more resistant to exotic species, but experimental tests are needed to verify this. In experimental communities of sessile marine invertebrates, increased species richness significantly decreased invasion success, apparently because species-rich communities more completely and efficiently used available space, the limiting resource in this system. Declining biodiversity thus facilitates invasion in this system, potentially accelerating the loss of biodiversity and the homogenization of the world's biota.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stachowicz -- Whitlatch -- Osman -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 19;286(5444):1577-1579.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340, USA. Academy of Natural Sciences, Estuarine Research Center, St. Leonard, MD 20685, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10567267" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
