Does species richness ensure #resilience? Karatayev et al. show that it does not: Alternative consumer- or resource-dominated states can arise in #foodWebs with low trait #diversity or high functional redundancy. Thus diversity only limits the #feedbacks that can produce #alternativeStableStates.
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