competitive exclusion

noun

1. ecology the dominance of one species over another when both are competing for the same resources, etc

Example Sentences

The study, titled "Frankenstein and the Horrors of Competitive Exclusion" and published in BioScience, takes its inspiration from a pivotal scene in the 1816 gothic story when the monster identified only as the "Creature" asks its creator, Victor Frankenstein, to create him a mate and allow the two to go live in "the vast wilds of South America."

From Reuters

Frankenstein's decision anticipated a concept that scientists in the 1930s defined as "competitive exclusion," which illustrates the limits of life's expansion when animals or humans need to compete for the same limited resources.

From Reuters

Sangster has a theory that because the smaller islands in the Indonesian archipelago only harbour one species of scops owl each, some kind of competitive exclusion could be at play.

From Scientific American

Between 500 and 1800 we see massive loss of eagle range in the south, which is consistent with the effects of habitat loss and killing by humans, rather than the influence of climate change on habitat, or competitive exclusion, as some have suggested.

From BBC