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Citation. Tilman, D. 1999. Diversity by default. Science 283:495-496.   [1745  LTER]

Introduction. One of the mysteries of biology is how the estimated 5 to 50 million species on Earth coexist. Some of the diverstiy results from the separation of Earth into five continents and the somewhat parallel diversifications of each.

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