Species Interactions Flashcards
What’s a Niche?
A niche is all the physical and biological conditions that an organism lives in and how the organism uses the conditions
What does a niche include?
A niche includes what it eats and what eats it
What’s a community interaction?
Competitive exclusion principle is a rule in ecology that states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time.
What is Predation?
When one organism captures and feeds on another organism
What is symbiosis?
Any relationship where two species live closely together.
What is Mutualism?
Both species benefit from
What is commensalism?
One species is helped by the relationship and the other is not harmed or helped
What is parasitism?
One organism lives on or inside another organism the host is harmed.
What occur within communities?
— competition
— predation
— symbiosis
And
— mutualism
— commensalism
— parasitism
