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Differentiate between competitive displacement and competitive exclusion.

      

Differentiate between competitive displacement and competitive exclusion.

  

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Francis
The effect of competition on species distribution is evidenced when a new species is so successful-in competition for resources with an established one to the extent that the latter is eliminated. This phenomenon is called competitive displacement.
On other level, the established species may be too strong to allow establishment of the arrival species, a phenomenon called competitive exclusion.

The following two examples serve to illustrate these two levels of competition:
(i) The European Starling Stumus vulgaris was introduced into New York in the 1891. It has since then expanded to all urban centres in the USA displacing the bluebird Sialia sialis and the yellow-shafted flicker. The two birds species compete mainly for nesting sites,
which include tree holes and man-made holes.
(ii) When South and North Americas got joined in the Pliocene period, about 2 million years ago (MYA) following the Isthmus of Panama, there was an exchange of species between the two regions. The consequence was the elimination of species in South America by those in the north. Invading large faunas from warm conditions in South America proved unsuccessful to competitors in the North American region.
francis1897 answered the question on February 28, 2023 at 07:36


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