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The requisites for life are, in any habitat, limited in supply. Therefore, the survival of each species of life depends upon its ability to compete with other species for these requisites. This simple observation has become a major unifying theme in contemporary theoretical ecology.
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Yodzis, P. (1978). Introduction. In: Competition for Space and the Structure of Ecological Communities. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93097-3_1
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