Q.Competition between species leads to

Step 1. Competition (--, --) occurs when individuals or species contend for a resource that is inadequate to meet everyone's needs.

Step 2. Under Hardin's competitive exclusion principle, when a resource is genuinely scarce, the weakest, least adapted, or least aggressive competitors are forced to face challenges they cannot overcome, and are progressively excluded from that resource or habitat. …

Apply the competitive exclusion principle: scarce shared resources force out the weaker competitor, and …

• Confusing competition's outcome with the definition of amensalism, which is a different, …