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chapter 53 community ecology ashitha rajeurs
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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
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competition interspecific competition occurs when species compete for a particular resource that is in short supply. - examples? leads to competitive exclusion - principle
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Competition (continued)
ecological niche fundamental niche vs. realized niche resource partitioning character displacement
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predation what is it? adaptations of predators defensive adaptations
- coloration (cryptic vs. aposematic) - mimicry (Batesian vs. Mullerian)
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herbivory What is it? adaptations - examples
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parasitism define. endoparasites vs. ectoparasites parasitoidism
characteristics of some parasites
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disease pathogens - compare/contrast to parasites examples
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