The Parasite Niche

Question 1

What are the factors of a ecological niche

Answer 1

Abiotic factors
pH temperature humidity

Question 2

Define the ecological niche

Answer 2

Multidimensional summary of tolerances and requirements of a species

Question 3

What is the fundamental niche

Answer 3

Set of resources that it is capable of using in the absence of any inter specific competition

Question 4

What is the realised niche

Answer 4

Set of resources that the species actually uses in response to interspecific competition

Question 5

What is the competitive exclusion principle

Answer 5

When a species will lose out in the competition and will decline to the point of local extinction

Question 6

What is resource partitioning

Answer 6

When two species living in a habitat have similar requirements. The two species can exploit different components of the resource, which decreases any competition
(You have that and I have this)

Question 7

What term is described by internal parasites that lack organs associated with feeding and gas exchange

Answer 7

Degenerate