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Question 1

What is the priority effect?

Answer 1

In ecology, a priority effect is the impact that a particular species can have on community development due to prior arrival at a site.

Question 2

What is inhibitory priority?

Answer 2

when a species that arrives first at a site negatively impacts a species that arrives later by reducing the availability of space or resources.

Question 3

What is Facilitative priority?

Answer 3

when a species that arrives first at a site alters abiotic or biotic conditions in ways that positively impact a species arriving later.

Question 4

What is Nich pre-emption?

Answer 4

Niche pre-emption occurs when an early-arriving organism depletes resources, thereby inhibiting the establishment of a late arriver.

Question 5

What is Exploitative competition?

Answer 5

An adverse indirect interaction between consumers caused by depleting a shared limiting resource.

Question 6

What is temporal scale?

Answer 6

biotic history, internal dynamics and external forcing