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Connell’s elegant field experiments are related to barnacle, in which superior barnacle Balanus dominates the intertidal area, and excludes the smaller barnacle Chathmalus from that zone. This phenomenon is called
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Joseph Connell showed through barnacle experiments that the superior competitor Balanus excluded Chthamalus from the intertidal zone, demonstrating the competitive exclusion principle.
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