14979 IUPAC Gold Book - redundancy hypothesis 10.1351/goldbook.14979 14979 current 1 Hypothesis that many species are redundant, and their loss will not influence the community function as long as crucial (e.g., keystone and dominant) species populations are maintained. community https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14531 population https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 936 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14979/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14979/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14979/plain Citation: 'redundancy hypothesis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14979 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-01T04:27:30+00:00