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1 chapter 53 community ecology ashitha rajeurs

2 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

3 competition interspecific competition occurs when species compete for a particular resource that is in short supply. - examples? leads to competitive exclusion - principle

4 Competition (continued)
ecological niche fundamental niche vs. realized niche resource partitioning character displacement

5 predation what is it? adaptations of predators defensive adaptations
- coloration (cryptic vs. aposematic) - mimicry (Batesian vs. Mullerian)

6 herbivory What is it? adaptations - examples

7 parasitism define. endoparasites vs. ectoparasites parasitoidism
characteristics of some parasites

8 disease pathogens - compare/contrast to parasites examples


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