-organisms compete with one another for food, light, water, mates and shelter
- organisms must live together for competition for available resources
-those which cannot cope either structurally or behaviorally will migrate or die
- those remaining, due to better adaptations will increase in population
- competition between members of the same species is called intra-specific competition
e.g. for mates
- Competition between members of different species is inter specific competition e.g. for
food and space
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