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Supply and demand

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Data from Himalayan songbirds suggest that the rate-limiting step in biodiversity production may not be the speed of speciation, but rather the speed at which new niches are created. See Letter p.222

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Figure 1: Himalayan songbird assemblage.

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  1. Arne O. Mooers is in the Biology Department and the Human Evolutionary Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A1S6, Canada.,

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