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Description: Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: ow.ly/AOkb30sfmak Who needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ecological redundancy (also: functional redundancy or functional equivalence): the ecological phenomena that multiple species representing a variety of taxonomic groups can share similar roles in ecosystem functionality - Legume: a plant in the Fabaceae family - Nitrogen fixation: the chemical process by which atmospheric nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Aldo de Vos | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Arcadi Garcia i Rius David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes • Alex Reich Henry Reich • Peter Reich • Ever Salazar Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Cardinale BJ, et al. (2011). The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. Am. J. Bot., 98 (2011), pp. 572-592. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.1000364 Clarke DM & Hollister I. (2010) Introduction to Redundancy. Safety and Reliability 30:4, 4-15. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09617353.2010.11690919 Huda AN, Salmah MRC, Hassan AA, Hamdan A, Razak MNA. 2015. Pollination services of mango flower pollinators. Journal of Insect Science 15: 113. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672212 Naeem, S. (1998) Species Redundancy and Ecosystem Reliability. Conservation Biology, 12, 39-45. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96379.x Paine, RT (1966). Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100: 65– 75. jstor.org/stable/2459379