The Plankton Paradox
The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Competitive Exclusion Principle: The idea that two similar species cannot inhabit the same ecological niche.
- Phytoplankton: Microscopic flora that drift with the ocean currents.
- Lotka-Volterra Competitive Equations: A simple model of the population dynamics of species competing for the same resources.
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