Facilitation and competition

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  • Created by: Annal22
  • Created on: 14-05-17 12:44

1. 'When physiological differences are higher in sympatric populations than allopatric populations, because of disruptive selection'.

  • Fundamental niche
  • Niche overlap
  • Character displacement
  • Competitive release
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2. 'When resources are shared more evenly by all organisms in a population, resulting in reduced fitness for all individuals.'

  • Exploitation
  • Scramble competition
  • Self-thinning rule
  • Contest competition

3. Which of these factors affects interspecific competition?

  • All of the options.
  • Nutrients.
  • Water cover.
  • Resource partitioning.

4. In order to prove his theory of competitive exclusion, Gause performed experiments on ....

  • Birds ( warblers)
  • Coral and different species of zooxanthellae
  • Paramecium bacteria (aurelia, caudatum and bursaria)
  • Barnacles (balanus and chthalamus)

5. 'An organism can expand it's niche in response to removal of a competitor, or through invasion into new areas'.

  • Competitive release
  • Realised niche
  • Territorial competition
  • Disruptive selection

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