Biology 2e
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Author:Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark
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Chapter45: Population And Community Ecology
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Problem 39CTQ: Describe the competitive exclusion principle and its effects on competing species.
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What does gause's principle of competitive exclusion states?
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- Gause gave this principle on the basis of interaction of population which means how organisms in a population interacts with each other in order to survive.
- This is called interspecific interactions. This can have positive, negative or neutral effect.
- Name of such interactions are MUTUALISM, COMPETITION, PREDATION, PARASITISM, COMMENSALISM, AMENSALISM and PROTOCOPERATION.
- In mutulism and protocoperation both the organisms are benefitted.
- In predation and parasitism one species is benefitted and the other is harmed.
- In commensalism one is benefitted and the other species is neither benefitted nor harmed.
- Ammensalism is the one in which one species is harmed and other is neither harmed nor benefitted.
- Last is competition in which both the species is harmed.
Gause's competitive exclusion principle is based one such interaction that is COMPETITION.
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