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Define the following terms and give one example for each:
Competitive release

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Competitive release: Aspecies whose distribution is restricted to a small geographical area because of the presence of a competitively superior species, is found to expand its distributional range dramatically when the competing species is experimentally removed.
Eg :- Larger and competitively superior Balanus on the rocky sea coast of Scotland dominates and excludes the smaller barnacle Chathamalus from intertidal zone
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