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Understanding Biology

Kenneth A. Mason, Tod Duncan, George B. Johnson

Chapter 39

Community Ecology - all with Video Answers

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Section 1

Competition Shapes How Species Live Together in Communities

01:11

Problem 1

If two species have very similar realized niches and are forced to coexist and share a limiting resource indefinitely,
a. both species would be expected to coexist.
b. both species would be expected to go extinct.
c. the species that uses the limiting resource most efficiently should drive the other species extinct.
d. both species would be expected to become more similar to each other.

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