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functional redundancy: a standalone construct

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Ecology

the extent to which several species perform the same ecosystem role, so losing one has little effect on function.

In ecology, functional redundancy refers to the extent to which several species perform the same ecosystem role, so losing one has little effect on function. This meaning comes from Walker (1992) in Conservation Biology.[1]

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conservation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs ecosystem3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs extent1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Walker, B. H. (1992). Biodiversity and Ecological Redundancy. Conservation Biology, 6(1), 18-23. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.610018.x

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