Competitive exclusion

How does competitive exclusion result in: a. character displacement and b. extinction? Describe the pathway that a community takes to lead to each result.

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How competitive exclusion leads to character displacement and extinction

Competitive exclusion is a principle that postulates that two species that rely on the same resources for survival cannot possibly coexist (Molles, 2013). Some ecologists also refer to the competitive exclusion principle as the Gauss’s law. In this law, considering a non-evolving situation, one of the competing species that has even a slight advantage over the other species will drive it to extinction……………………………..

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