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  "id": 16777946,
  "title": "A minimal model of a forest after neutral theory",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/a-minimal-model-of-a-forest-after-neutral-theory",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760759v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Community ecology seeks the mechanisms underlying biodiversity, and simplified models can reveal them. Neutral ecology exemplifies this approach, but it doesn't distinguish species, limiting its capability for forecasting and prediction. We address this by developing a predictive, minimal model for forest dynamics. We show in a neotropical forest plot that environmental variation couples to the…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}