interspecific competition

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competition
noun
uk /ˌkɒm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌkɑːm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
a situation in which someone is trying to win something or be more successful than ...
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Examples of interspecific competition

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Thereby this reduces interspecificcompetition for resources, including mates, in the case of members of the same species.
We consider a competition-diffusion system and study its singular limit as the interspecificcompetition rate tend to infinity.
Special emphasis is placed on potential non-target effects of the two species and the likelihood of interspecificcompetition is discussed.
Feeding, social behaviour and interspecificcompetition in wild rats.
This behaviour is believed to enable it to escape the intense interspecificcompetition which can occur between dipterous larvae within carrion.
Besides, interspecificcompetition for seed food is also governed by mechanical constraints imposed by seed morphology and the chemical composition of real seeds.
However, this does not suggest that interspecific aggregation is a response to interspecificcompetition, for which there is no evidence.
To evaluate interspecificcompetition, progeny size was regressed on female density and lines from each biotype in single and mixed cultures were compared.
If strong interspecificcompetition exists, it seems unlikely that all species would respond similarly to differences in host body size; rather, density compensation is expected.
The performance and traits of these species should reflect interspecificcompetition.
For these ants, nesting space is an essential resource that must be shared among them, therefore opening the possibility for strong intraspecific and interspecificcompetition.
As predicted, two main mechanisms seem to be important in generating such a pattern: nesting site availability and interspecificcompetition for nesting site.
They suggested that both intra- and interspecificcompetition may occur among gill parasites.
Moreover, a positive relation between intensity of infection and niche size is expected to limit interspecificcompetition.
It is also difficult to conclude that it was the result of interspecificcompetition because of low abundances.
By using multivariate methods to exclude the influences of other variables, we show evidence of both intra- and interspecificcompetition among these helminth species.
We conclude that patterns are the result of characteristics of the parasite species themselves and that interspecificcompetition is not necessary to explain them.
This pattern may reflect enhanced interspecificcompetition among parasites in these areas.
Our results indicated few cases where interspecificcompetition may have led to spatial exclusion along the gradient or to significantly small range overlaps.
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