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Who proposed the competitive exclusion principle?

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Gause's experiment with Paramecium} species demonstrated that no two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely.
  • G. F. Gause
  • Von Humboldt
  • Mac Arthur
  • Verhulst - pearl
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G.F. Gause proposed the competitive exclusion principle, also known as Gause’s Law}.
It states that two species competing for the same limiting resources cannot coexist at constant population values. One will outcompete the other.
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