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The struggle for life: I. Two species

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The general equations are discussed describing two species in competition or in symbiosis or feeding one on the other.

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  1. Department of Physical Biochemistry, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Aldo Rescigno

  2. Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California

    Irvin W. Richardson

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Rescigno, A., Richardson, I.W. The struggle for life: I. Two species. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 29, 377–388 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476909

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