Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. How can so many different species co-exist at the same time and place? One theory, the competitive exclusion principle, suggests that only one species can occupy a particular niche in a biological community at any one time. This is what U-M researchers are observing between a specialized community of seven marine clam species living in the burrows of their host species, a predatory mantis shrimp. Learn more about these clams’ risky choice to live with a killer in this article from Michigan News.
