Fig. 3. Intrinsic links between stability at different scales. Regional ecosystem stability can be partitioned into the product of local ecosystem stability and spatial asynchrony, and local ecosystem stability can be further decomposed into the product of species stability and species asynchrony. Different ecological processes can influence the stability of regional ecosystems by affecting species stability, inter-species asynchrony, and spatial asynchrony (adapted from Wang & Loreau, 2014).
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