The Structure of Theory, and the Role of Competition in Community Dynamics
- 1 April 1986
- Vol. 46 (2) , 145-158
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565461
Abstract
There seen to be only three general questions that investigators can ask when interpreting their data, and these result in theories of distinctly different stru...This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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