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Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated, global analysis finds

Source: Phys.org · Published 6 Oct 2026, 09:00

The idea that ecosystems carry plenty of backup, 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.

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