What is it about?
This study shows that biodiversity loss will slow down evolution of the surviving species
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Why is it important?
The current species extinctions waves associated with human activity may have a long-lasting impact, by creating an evolutionary debt: Since the remaining species will evolve more slowly, they may fail to diversify and generate new species that would replace the lost species.
Perspectives
I see this publication as an exemple that we can reconstruct miniature ecosystems in the lab, using bacteria to track how species adapt to a changing world
Dr Alexandre Jousset
Universiteit Utrecht
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This page is a summary of: High functional diversity stimulates diversification in experimental microbial communities, Science Advances, June 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600124.
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