Volkswagen said today that it would shuffle top managers as it reorganized into two groups to minimize competition between brands.
One way to minimize competition between coexisting species that use similar resources may be to partition these resources in space or time to reduce niche overlap (Pianka 1974; Pianka and May 1981).
However, although restoration science is now gradually expanding its long-standing paradigm of minimizing competition to including intraspecific, or within species, facilitation in its designs, the potential of harnessing mutualistic interactions between species for restoration purposes remains uninvestigated.
Both gardens are arranged in a grid pattern, with a 2.5×2.5 m spacing between plants; this spacing minimizes competition for above- and belowground resources, and facilitates site management in terms of mowing and weeding.
Cf. Palmer v. BRG of Ga., Inc., 498 U. S. 46, 49 50 (1990) (per curiam) ("[A]greements between competitors to allocate territories to minimize competition are illegal").
Despite the Court's suggestion to the contrary, this case in no way implicates the per se antitrust prohibition against horizontal " '[a]greements between competitors to allocate territories to minimize competition.' " Ante, at 32 (quoting Palmer v. BRG of Ga., Inc., 498 U. S. 46, 49 (1990) (per curiam)).
The flycatchers and tamarins have different patterns of activity, which minimizes competition for similar food sources.
ISPs, by contrast, succeed because their businesses have enormous up-front costs and capital expenses that have minimized competition.
Thus, selection to minimize competition for food can maintain both morphs in the same pond.
The oviposition vials were reared under reduced density (approximately 40 individuals) to minimize competition.
