Scaling of the variance and the quantification of resource monopolization

Daniel E. Ruzzante,* David C. Hamilton, Donald L. Kramer, and James W. A. Grant* "Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada, Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada, and Department of Biology, Concordia University, 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

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