What is the "Competitive Exclusion Principle"?

What is the "Competitive Exclusion Principle"?
  1. Two species with the same resources cannot coexist indefinitely
  2. Competition promotes coexistence rather than exclusion
  3. Resource partitioning is a mechanism to avoid competition
  4. The competitively inferior species will always be eliminated

Solution

The Competitive Exclusion Principle, first stated by Gause, states that two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot coexist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.

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