BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Herbivore, Pupa, Parasitoid
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Populations are both controlled by consumers and resources. Competition influences population processes and can determine whether a population can persist in a particular environment. Help each other trough resources or services. Living together refers to individuals and different species that live close to each other. 11. 1 all organisms are involved in consumer-resources interactions. Predators capture and consume individuals, therefore removing them from the prey population in order to maintain and grow. Consumes parts of a living organism or its host. Attach themselves to the host to feed on tissue, blood etc. Wasps or flies whose larvae eats and kills the host. The host are usually eggs, larvae, and pupa of other insects. They are considered predators when they eat the whole plant but a parasite if they just eat a part of it. Consume dead organic material such as leaves, feces, carcasses. 11. 3 parasites maintain a delicate consumer-resource relationship with their hosts.
