From: “Shell resource partitioning as a mechanism of coexistence in two co-occurring terrestrial hermit crab species”, S. Steibl & C. Laforsch (2020), BMC Ecology 20:1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-019-0268-2 A fairly fundamental concept in ecology and evolutionary ecology is the competitive exclusion principle – that complete competitors cannot coexist. That is, a situation in which two species which …
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