Lectures on species interactions and competition

Introduction
• Individuals and populations respond much differently when
grown with other species.
• Plant ecologists have long recognized that studying plants
in relationship to other species is critical to understanding
ecosystems.
• In this lesson, we will first look at a simple classification
scheme of pairwise interactions.
• We will then examine two of these: competition and
amensalism, with most of the focus being on competition
between plant species