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The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.

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Competitive Exclusion Principle: The idea that two similar species cannot inhabit the same ecological niche.
Phytoplankton: Microscopic flora that drift with the ocean currents.
LotkaVolterra Competitive Equations: A simple model of the population dynamics of species competing for the same resources.

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Shovonlal Roy, J. Chattopadhyay, (2007) Towards a resolution of ‘the paradox of the plankton’: A brief overview of the proposed mechanisms. Ecological Complexity, Volume 4, Issues 1–2 (2633). Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Susan Harrison, Howard Cornell and Kara A. Moore (2010) Spatial niches and coexistence: testing theory with tarweeds. Ecology, Vol. 91, No. 7 pp. 21412150 Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25680467