Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

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• Publication year

  1960

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1960-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/282146
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  Semantic Scholar

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