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. 2021 Mar 16;118(11):e2101176118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101176118.

Biodiversity and community structure

György Barabás  1   2
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Biodiversity and community structure

György Barabás. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no competing interest.

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Fig. 1.
Interactions in a hypothetical six-species plant community (circled graph). Species (letter-coded nodes) exert competitive (blue) or facilitative (red) influence on other species (outgoing arrows), and are, in turn, affected by them (incoming arrows). In this interaction web, any three-species subnetwork forms a network module. Three of these are highlighted in particular (subwebs outside the circle), corresponding to the key diversity-enhancing modules of Losapio et al. (1) which involve both competitive and facilitative interactions.
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