BILD 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Character Displacement, Food Energy, Parasitism
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41. 1 interactions within a community may help, harm, or have no effect on the species involved. /- interaction that occurs when individuals of different species comepte for a resource that limits their growth and survival. When two species are gorwn together, one species will go extinct depending on who had the compettiive edge in obtaining food. Specific set of biotic and abiotic resources that an organism uses. Two species cannot coexist permanently in a community if their niches are. Differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist in a. The niche potentially occupied by that species if often different from its realized niche. The portion of its fundamental niche that it actually occupies in. Closely related species whose populations are sometimes geographically. This tendency for characteristics to diverge more in sympatric (geographically. Refers to a +/- interaction between species in which one species, the predator, 1. a. kills and eats the other, the prey.