Competition and coexistence

Ulrich Sommer ()
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Ulrich Sommer: the Insitut für Meereskunde

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6760, 366-367

Abstract: A long-standing ecological puzzle is why plant communities don't consist of a single competitively dominant species. A new model shows that plankton diversity can be maintained by the population dynamics that result from species competing for resources.

Date: 1999
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