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- Dictionarycompetitive exclusion
noun
- 1. the inevitable elimination from a habitat of one of two different species with identical needs for resources.
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- Competitive exclusion principle
Proposition that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist at constant population values
In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gause's law, is a proposition that two species which compete for the same limited resource cannot coexist at constant population values. When one species has even the slightest advantage over another, the one with the advantage will dominate in the long term. This leads either to the extinction of the weaker competitor or to... Wikipedia
