{
  "id": 16179451,
  "title": "Sequential invasion under disturbance drives functional homogenisation of lake benthos",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/sequential-invasion-under-disturbance-drives-functional",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760877v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Biological invasions are reshaping freshwater benthic communities, but their functional consequences can be underestimated when abundance is the only currency. We asked whether sequential invasion under contrasting disturbance histories erodes native functional diversity. Lake Zurich's two basins are connected and share a climate but differ in disturbance history. For each we quantified four…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}