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Model ecosystems with random nonlinear interspecies interactions.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Dec 2004
Santos Danielle O C, Fontanari José F
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The principle of competitive exclusion in ecology establishes that two species living together cannot occupy the same ecological niche. Here we present a model ecosystem in which the species are described by a series of phenotypic characters and the strength of the competition between two species is given by a nondecreasing (modulating) function of the number of common characters. Using analytical tools of...
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