Question

State Gause’s ‘Competitive Exclusion Principle’. How have the recent studies modified this principle?

Answer 1

Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle':

• The Competitive Exclusion Principle sometimes referred to as Gause's Law of competitive exclusion, that states that two species that compete for the exact same resources cannot stably coexist.
• One of the two competitors will have an ever so slight advantage over the second one, which leads to extinction of the second competitor.
• The recent studies modified this principle as the two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot exist indefinitely and competitively inferior one will be eventually eliminated.