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Appendices

Appendix A: Relationship between body size and density (carrying capacity) for 11 protist species used in the interaction experiment.
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Appendix B: Time series of protists’ density from the interaction experiments.
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Appendix C: Interactions resulting in competitive/mutualistic loops between the 11 protist species adopted in the interaction experiments.
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Appendix D: Productivity for the six experimental replicates of the 11-species setup.
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Appendix E: Relationship between total biomass production and functional diversity based on simulations adopting a generalized Lotka-Volterra model.
Ecological Archives E096-119-A5.

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