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The breakpoint is broken and other tales from the comment on Lyons et al

A few weeks ago, Nature finally published the comment I wrote with colleagues on Lyons et al (2016). In this post, I explore some of the details that did not fit into the constraints of a 1200 word comment, and … Continue reading

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Denying the “undeniable reality”

In their paper “Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts”, Lyons et al report that that the proportion of species pairs that are aggregated (i.e. co-occur) rather than segregated began to decline in the … Continue reading

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