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Members of competing species may influence their share of food sources either by finding new feeding sites more frequently or by more effectively monopolizing those sites once found. We describe a model that separates the effects of these two forms of competition; in a set of African forest primates, only the first has a major effect on species' relative population densities. The model identifies factors which might lead to a greater role of interference at food sources in other communities.
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Waser, P.M., Case, T.J. Monkeys and matrices: On the coexistence of “omnivorous” forest primates. Oecologia 49, 102–108 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376906
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