How can competition affect the dispersal of species?
1 Answer
Aug 9, 2017
When resources are contested within a population, that population will expand (disperse) as new resources are sought (driven by the need to lessen interactive pressures on existing resources).
Explanation:
What is interesting is what happens to the members of the population when no new resources are "apparently" discoverable. Then, the interactive pressures on existing resources mounts and the population can turn can on itself. There is always some level of interactive pressure on existing resources because some "new" resources are not that easy to identify equally by all members of the population. Some sociologists speculate this is an underlying mechanism behind cyclical infighting in human populations.
