Environmental variability alters the relationship between richness and variability of community abundances in aquatic rock pool microcosms

The effect of species richness on the temporal variability of communities and populations continues to inspire investigations and debates; however, few empirical studies have addressed the crucial question of how the relationship between richness and variability changes along a gradient of environmental variability. We determined the relationship between species richness (S) and variability (coefficient of variation, CV) for both community and …