Chapter 14: Competition Flashcards

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Who was the first to document carnivory in plants?

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Charles Darwin

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What plants did Darwin study carnivory in?

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-Venus Flytrap: inner surface with touch sensitive hairs
-Pitcher Plant: leaves are modified into trap where insects get stuck and tumble into vat of digestive juices

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Why do some plants eat animals?

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-competition among plants can be intense where soil nutrients are scarce
-adaptation to low-nutrient environments

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Brewer (2003)

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removed non-carnivorous competitior plants from around pitcher plants and found that pitcher plant growth rates increased greatly

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Competition

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non-trophic interaction between individuals of two or more species in which all species are negatively affected by their shared use of a resource

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Interspecific competition

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between members of different species

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Intraspecific Competition

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between individuals of a single species

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Resources

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components of the environment that are required by species (food, water, light, space)

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Fundamental Niche

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the full set of resources, plus other biotic and abiotic requirements of a species

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Realized Niche

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the restricted set of resources that a species is limited to, due to species interactions

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Exploration Competition

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-individuals reduce the supply of a resource as they use it
-indirect competition
-Ex: pitcher plants

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Interference Competition

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-one species directly interferes with the ability of its competitors to use a limiting resource
-direct competition
-Carnivores fighting over animal prey

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Interference Competition in Plants

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individuals of one species grow on or shade other species, reducing their access to light

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14
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Allelopathy

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plants of one species release toxins that harm other species

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15
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When does belowground competition increase?

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Nutrient poor soils

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Wilson and Tilman (1993)

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studied grass plants that were transplanted into fertilized and unfertilized plots

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In Wilson and Tilman (1993), when was below ground competition most intense?

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nitrogen limited plots

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In Wilson and Tilman (1993), when was above ground competition for light increased?

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when light levels are low

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Tilman et al. (1981)

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2 diatom species showed that when the species were grown together, they competed for silica, and one species drove the other to extinction

20
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Effects of competition are _____ or _____

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unequal or asymmetrical (one species is harmed more than the other)

21
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What are the ends of the continuum called that demonstrate how strongly each competitor affects the other?

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amensalism: –/0 interactions; individuals of one species are harmed while individuals of the other species are not affected at all

22
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Brown and Davidson (1977)

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-exclusion experiments with rodents and ants that eat the same seeds
-when either rodents or ants were removed, the group that remained ate as many seeds as rodents and ants combined

23
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Schoener (1993)

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of 390 species studied, 76% showed effects of competition under some conditions, 57% showed effects under all conditions tested

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Connell (1983)

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competition was important for 50% of 215 species in 72 studies

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Gurevitch et al. (1992)
analyzed the magnitude of competition in 93 species in 46 studies: competition had significant effects on a wide range of organisms
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Biases to competition biases:
-researchers may not publish studies that show no significant effects -a tendency for investigators to study species they suspect will show competition
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Competion is _____, though not ____
common, ubiquitous
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2 possible outcomes of Interspecific Competition
-Competitive exclusion -competitive coexistence
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Competitive Exclusion
dominant species prevents another species from using essential resources; the inferior species may become locally extinct
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Competitive Coexistence
ability to coexist despite sharing limiting resources
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Gause (1930s)
-populations reached a stable carrying capacity when grown alone -2 were able to coexist by feeding on different food items, growth rates were slower -1 drove another to extinction, both feed on floating yeast cells
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Competitive Exclusion Principle
two species that use a limiting resource in the same way cannot coexist indefinitely
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Resource Partitioning
species using a limited resource in different ways can coexist
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Stomp et al. (2004)
-cyanobacteria in Baltic Sea -One species absorbs red more efficiently, the other absorbs green -each species could survive when grown alone on either wavelength -When grown together, one drove the other to extinction, depending on light wavelength -They coexist due to resource partitioning
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Character Displacement
when two species compete for resources, natural selection may favor phenotypes that allow them to partition resources, decreasing competition intensity
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Look at slides 41-52
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The outcome competition between species can be changed by...
features of the physical environment, disturbance, and interactions with other species
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Physical Environment
soil type influences competition between bedstraw species
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Interactions with other species
presence of herbivores can reverse the outcome of competition between encrusting marine algae species, and between ragwort and other plant species
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Connell (1961)
-examined factors that influence distribution, survival, and reproduction of two barnacle species
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Natural Experiment
a situation in nature that is similar in effect to a controlled removal experiment
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Patterson (1980,1981)
-studied chipmunk species in mountain forests and found -When a species lived alone on a mountain, it occupied a wider range of habitats than when it lived with a competitor species
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What may modify competitive interactions and ultimately influence abundance and distribution of species?
climate change
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What did warming experiments on beach grass species show?
that elevated temperatures can increase the likelihood of species coexistence and change the distributions of the two species
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Fugitive Species
they must disperse from one place to another as conditions change
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