Scramble competition
This refers to a form of ecological competition wherein a number of species compete for a resource
that is limited in supply,which in turn lowers the survival chances of all the competing species. Since
there is no limit placed on the exploitation of the resource, it may be used up aggressively by all the
species that have free access to it. This, in turn, might cause most, or even all,species in need of the
resource to go without enough of it to sustain themselves. Scramble competition can lead to mass
extinction even when the competition for a resource is limited exclusively to the members of only a
particular species.
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