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Posted Sat May 10 2008: from Public Library of Science via ScienceDaily:
Seed Dispersal In Mauritius -- Dead As A Dodo? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1210431385
"...Recent work has highlighted how it is not species diversity per se, which breathes life into ecosystems, but rather the networks of interactions between organisms. Thus, the real ghosts in Mauritius are not as much the extinct animals themselves, but more importantly the extinct networks of interactions between the species."
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