Competition/Niche
How does competition affect an organism?
It affects their survival and reproduction
What is a niche?
The way of life of an organism, and its role in an ecosystem.
What type of interaction benefits one organism but harms another?
Exploitation
Which type of interaction benefits one organism, but does not affected the other?
Commensalism
A realized niche is the portion of the fundamental niche a species uses in the presence of what?
Other species
A fundamental niche is the environmental conditions the species can tolerate and the resources it is capable of using under what kind of conditions?
What are the three types of exploitation?
Predation
Herbivory
Parasitism
Which type of interaction benefits both organisms involved?
Mutualism
What causes species to use their realized niche?
What is the law that states, "two species with identical niches cannot coexist over time."
Gause's Law
Are exploitation adaptations beneficial to the predator, the prey, or both?
Both
What type of interaction is between the same species?
Intraspecific
Which resource management strategy had to do with competition?
Timber stand improvement
Which resource management strategy had to do with niches?
Manipulating water flow in a wetland
Which resource management strategy had to do with exploitation?
Preventing cowbird brood parasitism
Which type of interaction is between different species?
Interspecific