Exploitative interactions Flashcards
exploitation
One organism makes its living at the expense of another
herbavores
Consime live plants materials (dont usually kill plants)
predators
Kill and ocnsume other organisms (typically feed on other animals)
parasites
Live on tissue of their hosts, usually reducing its fitness, but no tkilling it
parasitoid
insect whose larva consumes its host and kills its in the process
pathogen
Induce disease, a dibilitating ocndition, in host
constitutive defense
Plant defense against herbivore which is always present
induced defesne
plant defenses triggered only when an attack has occured
mutualism
Interactions between individuals of different species that benift both
facultative mutuslism
When species CAN live without their mutualsistic partners
obligate mutualism
Speices CANNOT live without their mutualsiic partners
Types od mutualism
Service: reousrce relationships, one participant trades a resource in return for a service
Service- service: one participant trades a service in return for a service