Using only genomics and a one-time tree count, a new model can accurately predict a forest's future

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that—using a tree census and genomic data collected from multiple species in a forest—can predict future fluctuations in the relative abundance of those species.

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