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The Competitive Exclusion Principle, formulated by V. Volterra (Memorie del R. Comitato Talassografico Italiano,131, 1–142, 1927) for a number of species competing for a common ecological niche, is extended to a number of species competing for many ecological niches.
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Rescigno, A., Richardson, I.W. On the competitive exclusion principle. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 27 (Suppl 1), 85–89 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02477264
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