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Beauty and Biodiversity

Caption: Brown University scientists Osvaldo Sala and Pedro Flombaum conducted their studies of the effect of plant species diversity on ecosystem productivity in the Patagonian steppe, a semiarid grassland located on the east side of the Andes Mountains in Argentina.

Credit: Courtesy of Osvaldo Sala, Brown University

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