The phrase "avoidance of competition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing business strategies, market behavior, or economic theories where competition is being minimized or evaded.
Example: "The company's strategy focused on the avoidance of competition by creating a niche market for its products."
Alternatives: "elimination of competition" or "reduction of competition".
These comprise avoidance of competition for resources [ 32], minimizing kin competition [ 33- 37], inbreeding avoidance [ 38] or coping with temporal variability of resource availability [ 39- 41].
Microalgae have significant potential for biomass accumulation and biodiesel production when compared to crops, due to their higher productivity per surface and avoidance of competition for arable land for food production [ 1, 2].
The observed intersexual avoidance cannot be explained by avoidance of competition over food resources, as conflicts over food resources were rarely observed, and inter-individual avoidance did not increase when food availability was low.
If the avoidance of competition between organelles was the major driving force for the evolution of uniparental inheritance, a replication race between oDNAs must be harmful to the nucleus.
However, the social influence on feeding was offset by avoidance of feeding competition, which acted to reduce behavioural synchrony.
Females displace males from food trees, and avoidance of direct competition is achieved by differential timing of resource use.
In addition to avoidance of kin competition, avoidance of inbreeding depression in progeny fitness is a major factor in the evolution of dispersal ability (Levin et al. 2003; Roze and Rousset 2005; Guillaume and Perrin 2006).
For example, early induction of stigma receptivity by pollen donors promotes avoidance of pollen competition in Collinsia heterophylla, but is associated with lower seed set of pollen recipients [ 15].
IMCI advocates should highlight key benefits of implementing horizontal programmes, such as the potential of achieving long-term and comprehensive effects on health services, the capacity to adjust to changes in disease patterns (Gonzalez 1965) and the avoidance of unnecessary competition for resources between vertical programmes (Mills 2005).
It remains unknown how costs and benefits of dispersal and philopatry are distributed among the sexes and how, for instance, the avoidance of local resource competition and inbreeding [Clutton-Brock & Lukas, 2012; Lukas & Clutton-Brock, 2011] shaped this pattern.
More sophisticated attempts have incorporated understandings of wildlife and livestock habitat to either argue for habitat overlap as evidence for ongoing competition or coexistence (Shrestha and Wegge 2008; Voeten and Prins 1999; Yoshihara et al. 2008) or no overlap as evidence for competitive exclusion, avoidance, or no possibility of competition (Loft et al. 1991; Namgail et al. 2007).
