ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Interspecific Competition, Niche Differentiation, Competitive Exclusion Principle

• School: UTM
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENV100Y5
• Professor: Barbara Murck

Document Summary

There are several categories of species interaction: When multiple organisms seek the same limited source. Competing organisms may fight with each other directly or indirectly. One organism is harmed and the other is unaffected. Among members of two or more different species. When a more effective competitor excludes another species from resource use entirely through interspecific competition. When neither species can fully exclude each other, resulting in a stable equilibrium, with both species living side by side and maintaining a fairly constant population size. In these cases, individuals are not fulfilling their entire niche. A niche displayed when an individual plays only part of its prole because of competition or other species interaction. When species divide the resource they use in common by specializing in different ways. The process by which individuals from one species - the predator - hunt, capture, kill, and consume individuals of another species, the prey.