State the exclusion principle by Gauss. How the concept of resource partitioning has evolved over the exclusion concept?
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In interspecies competition, two species use the same limited resource. Competition has a negative effect on both of the species (-/- interaction).
A species' niche is basically its ecological role, which is defined by the set of conditions, resources, and interactions it needs (or can make use of).
The competitive exclusion principle says that two species can't coexist if they occupy exactly the same niche (competing for identical resources).
Two species whose niches overlap may evolve by natural selection to have more distinct niches, resulting in resource partitioning.
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