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Phylogenetic distance does not predict competition in green algal communities
2015
Ecosphere
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An assumption often made by ecologists and phylogeneticists-that closely related species possess similar traits and ecology-can be extended into the hypothesis that closely related species compete more heavily than distant relatives due to shared ecology. The intuition that related species occupy similar niches and thus compete intensely for resources, one outcome of which is competitive exclusion and local reduction of biodiversity, was formally introduced by Darwin in 1859. The past decade
doi:10.1890/es14-00502.1
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