A fresh look at an established model in ecology has generated insights into how species coexist with each other. But it has also raised a vexed question: what constitutes the ecological identity of species?
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Nee, S., Colegrave, N. Paradox of the clumps. Nature 441, 417–418 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441417a
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