lec 12- competition cont.

Question 1

what are the special cases of competition?

Answer 1

asymmetric competition- competition between species are not equal
context dependent competition- changes in biotic and abiotic environments result in change in competition

Question 2

what is a community?

Answer 2

a group of species living together in one area

Question 3

what are assemblages?

Answer 3

taxonomically relates species populations that occur in one community

Question 4

what are the two types of communities?

Answer 4

holistic- a community where the species within it are interdependent, rely on one another to maintain balance in the ecosystem (closed)
individualistic- species in a community that live independent of one another, can tolerate the local physiological and biological conditions (open)

Question 5

what are ecostones?

Answer 5

a steep transition between two biological communities

Question 6

how do you design a study to test if two species are competing and what are the response variables?

Answer 6

compare their diet compositions with one another, and then see it when there are both, one of each, and none

Response variables: population size, population growth, individual growth, reproductive output