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IN a recent article about interspecific competition, Williamson1 quotes a definition of this process by Elton and Miller2 and adds that “it is difficult to distinguish between some cases that they would call competition and, say, predation”. But in our paper it is made clear that the term “competition” was being used only in respect of members of the same species, or between species of the same consumer layer, that is, it excludes such biotic relationships as predator–prey and parasite–host.
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Williamson, M. H., Nature, 180, 422 (1957).
Elton, C. S., and Miller, R. S., J. Ecol., 42, 460 (1954).
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ELTON, C. Interspecific Competition. Nature 180, 1002 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801002b0
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