Species and Communities
- Created by: lavithedemon
- Created on: 06-04-16 08:07
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- Ecology and conservation
- the distribution of species is affected by limiting factors
- abiotic factors
- temperature
- water availability
- light intensity
- soil pH
- soil salinity
- breeding sites
- food supply
- biotic factors
- abiotic factors
- Each species plays a unique role within a community because of the unique combinations of its spatial habitat and interactions with other species
- Ecological niche
- Two species cannot survive indefinitively in the same habitat if their niches are identical
- competitive exclusion principle
- Fundamental niche - the potential mode of existence
- realized niche - actual mode of existence
- interactions between species in a community can be classified according to their effects
- herbivory
- predation
- parasitism - one organism feeds of the other but does not kill it
- Mutualism - two species live in a close association
- Comensalism - one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed or killed
- Community Structure can be strongly affected by keystone species
- the distribution of species is affected by limiting factors
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