Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that:

Options

A. More abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition
B. Competition for the same resources excludes species having different food preferences
C. No two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting resources
D. Larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition

Answer

C

Explanation

In ecology the competitive exclusion principle sometimes referred to as Gauss law is a proposition states that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist at constant population value.