Introduction Anyone who has grown plants in a garden or raised fish in an aquarium knows that there is a limit to the number of individuals that can survive in an area. For example, you cannot raise 4,582 tomato plants in a 1-gallon flower pot. Nor can 712 guppies survive happily in a small fishbowl. The reason for this is that resources such as space, nutrients, and water are limited and this will automatically result in the process called competition . Competition occurs when organisms have an adverse effect on each other as a result of requiring the same resource.
Competition occurs between two or more organisms.
When these organisms belong to the same species it is referred to as intraspecific competition. When it occurs between individuals of different species it is interspecific competition. Each group will get 10 plastic film canisters. Before planting, soak the canister from the bottom in water until thoroughly moist. For the controls, one seed will be planted in each well.