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Competitive exclusion principle stating that inferior species is eliminated eventually after prologed competition was given by

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C Darwin

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GF Gause

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MacArthur

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Verthulst and Pearl

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The principle of competitive exclusion is stated by GF Gause. He studied the effects of interspecific competition between two closely related species.
He stated that two species competing for the same food resource cannot coexist at the same place as highest degree of competitiveness exists between them.
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