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Appendix C. Duration of each species to reach carrying capacity.

FIG. C1. shows the day of experimental runtime when the individual species in monocultures reached carrying capacities. The tagged values are mean values across all light levels across a metacommunity. The dashed regression line shows that only STA reached carrying capacity marginal significantly earlier when light intensities where high (STA: r2 = 0.11, F1, 21 = 3.83, P = 0.06, regression slope = -0.16).