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Basic Ecology 4
Community and their relationships
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| all populations in a specific place at a specific time | community |
| two individuals go after the same resource, harms both | competition |
| resource partitioning | species divide up resource to reduce competition |
| physical/behavioral differences between species that reduces competition | character displacement |
| one species eats all or part of another | predation |
| List prey defenses (4) | physical (spines, thorns), behavioral (run, stay still), chemical (poisons), color (warning, frightening, camouflage) |
| type of color defense | mimicry |
| relationship between two species where there is an interaction, can be positive or negative | symbiosis |
| symbiotic relationship where one partner benefits & the other is unaffected | commensalism |
| symbiotic relationship where both species benefit | mutualism |
| feeding by one species (parasite) upon another (host) | parasitism |