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      Marine ecosystem functions. State of art for marine ecosystems. Functional traits of marine organisms. Functional diversity: methods. Relationships between taxonomic and functional diversity. Redundancy. Processes linking biodiversity and functioning: facilitation, complementarity, sampling effect, portfolio effect. Biodiversity-functioning models. Case studies on primary and secondary productivity, stability and resistance to invasion.

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