Unit 1 Flashcards
Community ecology
The study of interactions among species
Symbiotic relationship
Two species are living in close association with each other
Competition
The struggle of individuals to obtain a shared limited resource.
Competitive exclusion principle
Two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist
Resource Partitioning
In which two species divide a resource based on differences in their behavior or morphology.
Predication
An interaction in which one animal typically kills and consumes another animal.
Commercialism
A relationship between species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed now helped.
Keystone species
A species that plays a far more important in its community than its relative abundance might suggest
Parasitoid
Parasitism
Pathogen
Herbivory
Mutualism
Terrestrial biome
Aquatic biome