chapter 53 community ecology ashitha rajeurs
what is a community? an organism’s environment includes biotic factors: other individuals of the same species as well as individuals of other species define community interactions: competition, predation, herbivory, symbiosis, and disease
competition interspecific competition occurs when species compete for a particular resource that is in short supply. - examples? leads to competitive exclusion - principle
Competition (continued) ecological niche fundamental niche vs. realized niche resource partitioning character displacement
predation what is it? adaptations of predators defensive adaptations - coloration (cryptic vs. aposematic) - mimicry (Batesian vs. Mullerian)
herbivory What is it? adaptations - examples
parasitism define. endoparasites vs. ectoparasites parasitoidism characteristics of some parasites
disease pathogens - compare/contrast to parasites examples