The confounded interdependencies of ecosystem stability measures: a critique of "Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability" by Liang et al.

This is a re-analysis of a recent article published in Science by Liang et al. 2025 which shows how ecosystem stability has a relationship with species-area relationships which can be decomposed in species stability and asynchrony. The equations used to generate their analyses are confounded and their purported results can be reproduced with random data.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16897120
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Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
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The confounded interdependencies of ecosystem stability measures: a critique of "Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability" by Liang et al.

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The confounded interdependencies of ecosystem stability measures: a critique of "Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability" by Liang et al.

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Abstract

This is a re-analysis of a recent article published in Science by Liang et al. 2025 which shows how ecosystem stability has a relationship with species-area relationships which can be decomposed in species stability and asynchrony. The equations used to generate their analyses are confounded and their purported results can be reproduced with random data.

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