1. chapter 53
community ecology
ashitha rajeurs

2. what is a community?
an organism’s environment includes biotic factors: other individuals of the same species as well as individuals of other species
define community
interactions: competition, predation, herbivory, symbiosis, and disease

3. competition
interspecific competition occurs when species compete for a particular resource that is in short supply.
- examples?
leads to competitive exclusion
- principle

4. Competition (continued)
ecological niche
fundamental niche vs. realized niche
resource partitioning
character displacement

5. predation what is it? adaptations of predators defensive adaptations
- coloration (cryptic vs. aposematic)
- mimicry (Batesian vs. Mullerian)

6. herbivory
What is it?
adaptations
- examples

7. parasitism define. endoparasites vs. ectoparasites parasitoidism
characteristics of some parasites

8. disease
pathogens
- compare/contrast
to parasites
examples