Two Species in a Community Compete for the Same Resource

question 243

Multiple Choice

Two species in a community compete for the same resource.Species A maintains a significantly larger population.However, after a several-year drought, species A declines and species B begins to increase its population size.The two species are carrying out an interaction known as

• A) symbiosis.
• B) competitive exclusion.
• C) mutualism.
• D) resource-mediated coexistence.
• E) a trophic cascade.

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