Ecological Competition

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The paper defines and describes the principle of competition as it pertains to ecology and outlines the underlying physical, chemical, and/or biological principles that operate within the ecological principle. The paper includes a description of general textbook observations that support this principle. In the conclusion, the paper describes four real world studies from specific scientific articles published in research journals that demonstrate the principle, including an examination of how the principles discussed here are investigated by ecologists.

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"Competition is described as an interaction that leads to an increase in one species population density and also to a decrease in the per capita growth rate and population density in another. It has also been suggested that species richness in a habitat decreases with increasing levels of competition- the more competition there is for a particular resource, the fewer individuals there will be in a species population. Further, the number of species in a habitat will become excluded due to the intensity of competitive activity."

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