Does mutualism hinder biodiversity?
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biodiversitymutualisticnetworkschooseconnectedconsiderdecreaseecological
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A recent paper by James et al. finds that mutualistic interactions decrease the biodiversity of model ecosystems. However, this result can be reverted if we consider ecological trade-offs and choose parameters suitable for sparse mutualistic networks instead of fully connected networks.
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