Biodiversity thrives in rare events

17 Jun 2025
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University of Queensland research has shown unpredictable environmental events help maintain plant, animal and microbial populations, challenging the belief stability is the key to survival.

Dr James Richardson, a PhD candidate from UQ's School of the Environment said “The key insight from our research is that species can specialise not just in average conditions or variability, but also in rare instances of resource abundance or scarcity."

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