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Mean plant weight and density in competing populations can be related using the competition-density effect and reciprocal equations, and the —3/2 power law. Application of these equations, their interrelationships, and conditions under which their properties alter or fail to apply are discussed. Their importance in teaching ecology is briefly considered.
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