Maximum growth rate, size and commonness
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William D. Taylor
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Article
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1978
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Adaptions which confer competitive ability or resistance to predation are thought to be evolved with a resultant loss in intrinsic rate of increase (r ). Therefore species which are opportunistic should retain high values of r , whereas competitively superior species which employ a strategy of persi