Chapter 54 - Community Ecology

Question 1

What is a biological community?

Answer 1

An assemblage if populations of various species living close enough for potential interaction

Question 2

What is an ecological niche?

Answer 2

The sum of a species’ use of biotic and abiotic resources

Ecologically similar species can coexist in a community if there are one or more significant differences in their niches

Question 3

How does a fundamental niche differ from a realized niche?

Answer 3

Fundamental niche is the large potential niche that an organism can occupy. The realized niche is the smaller, actual space the organism occupies due to competition for resources