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Nature's capacity to 'bounce-back' when species are lost vastly overestimated (www.kcl.ac.uk)
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The idea that ecosystems carry plenty of back-up, so if a small number of species become extinct there is little harm, has been greatly overestimated according to the largest global study of its kind.

The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, combined 423 published studies and 222,829 data points across land, freshwater, marine and estuarine ecosystems, producing a database more than twice the size of the largest previous effort and the largest of its kind.

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[–] 7 points 1 week ago

There might have been truth to the bounce back theory if it was indeed just single species disappearing ~naturally (over-predation is a possible natural problem) rather than entire ecosystems being systematically destroyed for profit.

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