Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Ronny Vallejos, J. Julio Camarero, Emilia Gutiérrez, Eryuan Liang, Yafeng Wang, and Aaron M. Ellison

Everyone is familiar with that age-old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Among ecologists, the word “picture” easily could be replaced with the word “pattern,” although the significance remains the same: The pattern we observe in a single snapshot more than sums up what could be expressed if we tried to describe all the original events that led to the pattern.

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