Community Interaction

Competition
Competition
• When different individuals or populations attempt
to use the same resource
• Resource→ any necessity to life
• Plants and animals compete
• Winner and losers
Competition
• Maybe:
interspecific or intraspecific

• Due to:
exploitation or interference

• Result in:
Coxistence by niche separation
Resource Partitioning
Intraspecific competition
• Between organisms of the same species, organism
are the subject to the influences of the living
(biotic) and non-living (abiotic) factors of the
environment.
• (food, mates, territory)
Interspecific competition
• Relationship existing between two or more
different species, maybe beneficial to both parties
or harmful to the other or maybe neutral on
respect to the other
• (food, water)
Exploitation
• One species denies another access to a resource
simply by consuming it first

• E.g: The older, taller trees create a canopy

effectively absorbing the available light. Thus, the
younger, smaller trees do not have access to that
resource and are less likely to survive.
Interference
• One species actively inhibits the foraging, survival
or reproduction of the other species (chemical and
behavioural)

• E.g. Male-male competition in red deer.