Competition for limiting resources long has been considered an important factor generating
community structure. A minimal model of resource competition predicts that the species that
reduces the limiting resource R to the lowest level () will exclude its competitors. Whether
this “rule” is robust to violations of model assumptions remains largely unknown. I conducted
a competition experiment with four species of bacterivorous protists in laboratory
microcosms and predicted the outcome from each species' value. I also examined how the …

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