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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Stuart L. Pimm

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Pimm, S.L. Estimating competition coefficients from census data. Oecologia 67, 588–590 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00790031

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