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Title: Coexistence and Collapse: an Experimental Investigation of the Persistent Communities of a Protist Species Pool.

Authors: Weatherby, A. J., P. H. Warren, and R. Law.

Citation: Weatherby, A. J., P. H. Warren, and R. Law. 1998. Coexistence and Collapse: an Experimental Investigation of the Persistent Communities of a Protist Species Pool. Journal of Animal Ecology 67, no. 4: 554-66.

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