How does competition help ecosystem stability?

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• Organisms and populations within an ecosystem are constantly interacting. These interactions help maintain stability by:
• Survival of the fittest
• Removing disease and weakness
• Controlling population growth
• Types of interactions in an ecosystem
• Interspecific competition: individuals of different species competing for a resource (water at the watering hole)
• Intraspecific competition: individuals in the same population compete for the same resource (male cheetahs competing for mates)