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Contests between species aid biodiversity

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A modelling approach used to investigate competition between different species provides insight into how contests that have multiple players can help to maintain biodiversity. See Letter p.210

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Figure 1: Modelling competition between species to understand biodiversity.

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O'Dwyer, J. Contests between species aid biodiversity. Nature 548, 166–167 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23103

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