Marine biodiversity and geographic distributions are independent on large scales
Fundamental ecological and evolutionary theories, such as community saturation and diversity-dependent diversification, assume that biotic competition restricts resource use, and thus limits realized niche breadth and geographic range size [1, 2, 3]. This principle is called competitive exclusion. T...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cell Press
2019
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