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| Interspecific Competition |
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| Interactions between two or more different species |
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| Intraspecific competition |
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| interations between members of the same species |
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| a number of organisms utilize a common resource in short supply |
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| ''Contest'' competition; organisms seeking a common resource harm one another in the process, even if the resource is not in short supply; direct aggressive interaction |
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| defines the physical conditions under which a species might live, in absence of interactions with other species |
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| Biotic interactions with other species may restrict the environment a species may live in; hypervolume is less than the fundamental niche hyper volume |
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| Competitive exclusion principle |
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| The species which is the better competitor will eventually lead to the extinction of the other |
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Niche
- Funadmental niche
- Realized niche
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- defines the physical condtions under which a species might live, in the absence of interactions with other species.
- biotic interactions with other species may restrict the environment a species may live in; hypercolume is less than the fundamental niche hypervolume.
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