Nice shift is the change in behavioral or feeding patterns by two or more competing populations to reduce interspecific competition. Interspecific competition is a type of competition between organisms of different species. A niche is a full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
Coal seams are far deep underground to be considered for opencast minings. These coal seams require underground mining. Since it is too deep underground, it can be used for mapping and correlation of sedimentary rocks or as a key bed.
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The term would be leukocytosis and this usually indicates that there is presence of an infection.