In connell's classic study of barnacles, two species, species a and species b, can both survive on the lower rocks of the intertidal, but only species b actually does so. species a lives in a higher zone. how did connell explain this distribution?

Inter specific competition

Explanation:

This is usually a situation where two or more species coexist with the same requirement struggle for a common requisite which indirectly affects the distribution of species in its local ecosystem.

a. the moon was locked into orbit by the earths gravity as it was passing by and capture hypothesis i think

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