Per capita rate of increase, r, related to the net reproductive rate, R₀

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Paul and Ann Ehrlich (1981) proposed an alternative called the rivet hypothesis Some species play a small but critical role in keeping the plane, the community, airborne, while other species do not

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 Brian Walker (1992) proposed the Redundancy hypothesis Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions

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Keystone hypothesis

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Idiosyncratic hypothesis Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases, but that the direction of change is not predictable

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Ecotones - An ecotone is a zone of junction or a transition area between two biomes (diverse ecosystems).

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