Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community.
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...2; Hypothesis 1) (Walker et al. 1999, Sugihara and Bersier 2003, Vergnon et al. 2009, 2012, Magurran and Henderson 2012)....
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...Vergnon et al. (2009) found that the most abundant phytoplankton species were far apart in terms of body size (the scale domain at which they operated), suggesting that strong interspecific competition prevents similarly sized species from attaining high abundances....
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...2; Damuth 1981, Petchey and Gaston 2006, Vergnon et al. 2009, Magurran and Henderson 2012)....
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...All GAM fitting was performed using the R mgcv package (Wood 2006)....
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...Niche-based models assume differences in resource use between species; species thereby avoid competition and are able to coexist (Gause 1934; Hardin 1960; Chesson 2000)....
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...Niche-based models assume differences in resource use between species; species thereby avoid competition and are able to coexist (Gause 1934; Hardin 1960; Chesson 2000)....
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...…a century of research, it is still not understood how species-rich communities are maintained in the face of the theoretical prediction that single-species dominance is more likely than the stable coexistence of numerous species competing for small numbers of common resources (Hutchinson 1961)....
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