Community Ecology Flashcards
What is exploitive competition?
Find and use the resource before someone else does.
What is Interference Competition?
Organisms fight over direct resources.
What is competitive exclusion?
2 organisms have the same niche requirements, one is just better at getting the resource then the other.
What is a Fundamental niche?
Full possibility of resources
What is a Realized Niche?
Actual possibilities for resources
What is community stratification?
Habitats divide amongst competitors in space or time.
What is predation?
One species is lunch for another species.
What are the active defenses of predation?
Running away
Fighting off
What is mutualistic symbiosis?
Both species benefit from the interaction.
What is commensalism?
One species benefits from a interaction, the other is unharmed.
What is parasitism?
One species benefits, one species is harmed
What is Coevolution?
Process of reciprocal evolutionary adaptations in 2 or more species.
What is succession?
Orderly change that begins in a new or disturbed habitat.
