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When individuals experience resource depletion it matters little whether the consumption responsible was carried out by members of the same or of other species. Therefore, approaches to studying interspecific competition may be carried over to studying evolution in response to the selective pressures of competition for resources.
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Grover, J.P. (1997). Resource competition and evolution. In: Resource Competition. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6397-6_9
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