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Competitive Abilities in Experimental Microcosms Are Accurately Predicted by a Demographic Index for R* 1 2 Ebony G. Murrell *, Steven A. Juliano 1 Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, 2 School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States of America Abstract Resource competition theory predicts that R*, the equilibrium resource amount yielding zero growth of a consumer population, should pred