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What is an ecological community? |
A collection of interacting populations within an area. |
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What is within each ecological community? |
Each organism occupies its own ecological niche. |
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In any community... |
individuals must compete for limited resourses |
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The competition between populations is... |
The driving force behind population dynamics |
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Gause's Principle states that... |
if two populations occupy the same niche, one of them will be eliminated (competitive exclusion) |