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University of Minnesota
School of Mathematics

 

Competitive Exclusion

Robert A. Armstrong and Richard McGehee

The American Naturalist 115 (2) (1980), 151-170. doi: 10.1086/283553

 


 
 
   
     
      
     
 
Note.  Prior to 1980 there were many papers published examining the mathematical basis for the ecological principle of competitive exclusion. It was generally believed that there was a mathematical theorem that could be interpreted to conclude that, if n species coexisted competing for k resources, then n could not exceed k. This paper shows that this conclusion is false if one does not demand that coexistence occurs at constant population densities.
 

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