The paradox of the plankton
Explain why many plankton species competing for the same few limiting resources coexist, and show quantitatively which mechanisms account for observed diversity in real communities.
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Each problem states how progress is verified and what counts as a contribution. Besides the problems curated here, the catalogue includes open conjectures from Formal Conjectures (with Lean statements), optimization constants and the AlphaEvolve problems. Know one that belongs here? Propose a problem.
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