Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated

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• Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976823 Points: 123 # Comments: 58…
• Reported by Hacker News and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:11:51 UTC.

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