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An Interactive Introduction to Organismal and Molecular Biology, 2021

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10.<br />

SPECIES INTERACTIONS<br />

<strong>An</strong>drea Bierema<br />

Learning Objectives<br />

Students will be able <strong>to</strong>:<br />

• Define niche.<br />

• Describe types of species interactions.<br />

• Define competitive exclusion <strong>and</strong> resource partitioning principles.<br />

• Use food webs <strong>to</strong> infer examples of species interaction within a community.<br />

• Use ecological models <strong>to</strong> appropriately predict how an abundance of species may impact other<br />

species within a community.<br />

Community Ecology<br />

Ecology is studied at different scales <strong>and</strong> species interactions are part of the “community ecology” scale.<br />

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https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/isb202/?p=199

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