Scramble competitionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

In general terms, scramble competition is a type of competition in which equally rationed yet perpetually limited resources within an environment result in decreased survival rates for all competitors. Scramble competition is known in the field of ecology as a situation where, “animals have to share a limited resource but there is no way in which an individual can limit the access of that resource to other individuals”. Scramble competition is also defined as “a finite resource [that is] shared equally amongst the competitors so that the quantity of food per individual declines with increasing population density”. A further description of scramble competition is “competition for a resource that is inadequate for the needs of all, but is partitioned equally among contestants, so no competitor obtains the amount it needs and in extreme cases all die.