Chesson's coexistence theory: Comment.

Recently, Barabas et al (2018) tried to explain some of my contributions to species coexistence theory. They include many laudatory comments, and it might seem churlish to complain, but unfortunately, I found many mistakes in their account. I was not shown a copy of Barabas et al (2018) before it was accepted and appeared online, precluding my commenting before publication. Fortunately, my recent publication (Chesson 2018) provides detailed discussions of many of my concerns. Here, I focus on a key part of Barabas et al (2018) that receives scant attention in Chesson (2018), namely, the development of multispecies coexistence theory in Chesson (1994), which has been the foundation of much other work. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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