Question

Which of the following statements about competition is true?

Competitors can coexist by developing ways to benefit the other species.

The principle of competitive exclusion allows species with the same niche to coexist.

Competition never leads to the complete exclusion of one species.

When two competitors have slightly different fundamental niches, the poorer competitor can take refuge in areas that are beyond the better competitor's tolerance.

Answer 1

Answer:

When two competitors have slightly different fundamental niches, the poorer competitor can take refuge in areas that are beyond the better competitor's tolerance.

Explanation:

Gause's law is that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist at constant population values. When one species has even the slightest advantage over another, the one with the advantage will dominate in the long term. This leads either to the extinction of the weaker competitor or to an evolutionary or behavioral shift toward a different ecological niche. The principle has been paraphrased in the maxim "complete competitors cannot coexist