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What occurs when two species contend with one another for the same scarce resource in the same niche, according to Gause's competitive exclusion principle?

 

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the competitive exclusion principle and resource partitioning?

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Gause competitive exclusion principle & Resource Partitioning
  • Gause ‘s competitive exclusion principle states that the two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot coexist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.
  • However, species facing competition might evolve mechanisms that promote coexistence rather than exclusion. 
  • One such mechanism is ‘resource partitioning’. 
  • In resource partitioning, if two species compete for the same resource, they could avoid competition by choosing, for instance, different times for feeding or different foraging patterns. 
  • MacArthur showed that five closely related species of warblers living on the same tree were able to avoid competition and co-exist due to behavioural differences in their foraging activities.
     

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