Conceptualizing phytoplankton communities in the absence of resource based competitive exclusion

Abstract Competition for resources has long been viewed as a dominant mechanism for species exclusion in nature. Laboratory phytoplankton competition experiments have clearly demonstrated the principles of resource-based competitive exclusion, yielding the decades-old ‘R* rule’ stating that the spec...

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Main Authors: Michael Behrenfeld, Kelsey Bisson, Emmanuel Boss, Jason Graff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07680-5
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