Ecological winners and losers of extreme drought in California

Ecological winners and losers of extreme drought in California

Ecological winners and losers of extreme drought in California, Published online: 20 August 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0255-1

California’s 2012–2015 drought is shown to have altered community structure (plants, arthropods, birds, reptiles and mammals), indirectly promoting the long-term persistence of rare species by stressing dominant ones.