Uncovering the contribution of rare species to ecosystems is crucial to predicting the impacts of biodiversity loss. It seems that these species can be ecologically very different from their common relatives, but only in some cases.
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Gaston, K. The importance of being rare. Nature 487, 46–47 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487046a
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