In the real world, of course, there are plenty of examples where this is untrue. Competitive exclusion has been less prominent in ecology since the 1970s/80s for a reason. Many resources are neither limited nor limiting.
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Yes, the apparent violation of competitive exclusion in nature has guided the search for overlooked niches and other forms of density dependence, that can explain mismatch between theory and data. We talk about all of this in the paper.
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