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Some examples of marine animal and plant communities with a structure determined by competitive inter-species relationships are discussed. It has been shown that the ranked species structure of these communities obeys a geometric progression, whose coefficient does not differ significantly from the constant exp(–1) = 0.368. A relationship between a certain parameter of this progression and the species diversity of a community has been found.
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Sukhanov, V.V. On the Species Structure of a Competitive Marine Community. Russ J Mar Biol 44, 159–163 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074018020116
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