Species play essential roles in ecosystems, so local and global ... Stability can be defined in several ways, but the most intuitive definition of a stable system is one having low variability ...

The researchers found that these fluctuations were the most important factor in ... interactions between species. In ecosystems that had more stable, less diverse populations, with stronger ...

resulting in more un-stable soil food webs. All of the mechanisms mentioned in this and the previous section may influence biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships but they are not mutually ...