Competitive exclusion principle
PROPOSITION THAT TWO SPECIES COMPETING FOR THE SAME LIMITING RESOURCE CANNOT COEXIST AT CONSTANT POPULATION VALUES
Competitive exclusion; Gause's Law; Crowding out (biology); Gause's Competitive Exclusion Principle; Principle of Competitive Exclusion; Gause's principle; Gause's law; Competitive-exclusion principle; Gause principle
In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gause's law, is a proposition that two species which compete for the same limited 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.