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Community Ecology ICompetition
I. Intro to Community EcologyA. What is a community?
B. Types of interactions
C. Regulation of population dynamics
II. CompetitionA. Terms and Concepts
B. Competitive exclusion principle
C. Factors that allow for coexistenceD. Predicting Outcomes of Comp.
Reading: Chap. 13
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I.A.What is a community?
Definition: Any assemblage of populations in an area or habitat, i.e., all the different species interacting in a given location
Encompasses many populations of different species.
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Questions- How do biotic interactions affect the distribution of particular species?
- What biotic interactions structure communities?
- What factors cause changes in species richness across community types?
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Neutral: 0 0
Mutualism: + +
Commensalism: + 0
Predation: + -
Parasitism + -
Competition: - -
B. Types of interactions
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D. Hooper ©1992 Serpentine grassland
Understanding interactions helps restoration
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Cows are good?!
Bay checkerspot
Invasive grassesPlantago erecta
Understanding interactions
L. Gonzalez photos 2005 D. Hooper photos 2005
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Density independent vs.
Density dependent
C. Control of populations
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II. Competition (-/-)
Multiple organisms or species trying to maximize their own use of a limited pool of resources.
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II. Competition
A. Terms
Exploitative
Interference
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A. TermsIntraspecific
- among individuals of one species
- implicit in the logistic population growth curve (density dependence)
Interspecific- among individuals of different
species
- may restrict the range of one or the other species
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Intraspecific competition and niches
And NUH is the letter I use to spell NutchesWho live in small caves, known as Niches, for hutches.
These Nutches have troubles, the biggest of which isThe fact that there are many more Nutches than Niches.
Each Nutch in a Nich knows that some other NutchWould like to move into his Nich very much.
So each Nutch in a Nich has to watch that small Nichor Nutches who haven't got Niches will snitch.
“On beyond zebra”, Dr. Suess (Geisel, 1955)
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A. Terms
Niche
n-dimensional hypervolume
Fundamental vs. Realized
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Niches: fundamental and realized
fundamental fundamental nicheniche
realized nicherealized niche
The The realized nicherealized niche of an organism of an organism is often smaller than the is often smaller than the fundamental niche due to fundamental niche due to competition, predation, parasitism, competition, predation, parasitism, and recruitment limitationsand recruitment limitations
The The fundamental nichefundamental niche is is defined by an organism’s defined by an organism’s adaptations to persist in a given adaptations to persist in a given abiotic environmentabiotic environment
Realized niche could be larger than fundamental due to mutualisms
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Many invasive species have similar fundamental niches to the areas they invade.
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B. Competitive exclusion principle
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Competitive exclusion and the nicheGause: Competitive exclusion
principle.
Ricklefs Fig. 19.6
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Niche overlap – regulation of population size
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C. What allows coexistence?
1. Non-overlapping niches
2. Variable environmental conditions
3. Other species interactions
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1. Non-overlapping niches= resource partitioning
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Resource partitioning among animals
(Krebs 2001)
(Norberg et al. 1999)
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Resource partitioning in plants
(Vandermeer 1990)
Light interception
(Gulmon et al. 1983)
Rooting depth
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2. Variation in environmental conditions
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Competitive dominant depends on temperature and humidity
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Goldfields
Climatic variability and coexistence
Plantago D. Hooper photos 2005
San Jose, California
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Diatom competition depends on variation in nutrient availability
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3. Effects of other species interactions
(see Ecobeaker barnacles)
Predation can lead to coexistence if…• Selective predation2. for the competitive dominant.
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Cows are good?!
Bay checkerspot
Invasive grassesPlantago erecta
Understanding interactions
L. Gonzalez photos 2005 D. Hooper photos 2005
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D. Predicting Outcomes of Competition
Lotka-Volterra models
• Models
• Outcomes
• Assumptions
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Where will each population grow?
Zero growth isoclines: solve for dN/dt = 0
http://www.tiem.utk.edu/bioed/bealsmodules/competition.html
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Where will each population grow in competition?
Put both species’ isoclines together
http://www.tiem.utk.edu/bioed/bealsmodules/competition.html
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L-V PredictionsCompetitive dominant depends on relative
magnitudes of K’s and ’s
Spp 1 wins Stable coexistence
Unstable: either could win
Spp 2 wins
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Assumptions of L-V models
1. Environment is homogenous and stable, without fluctuations (K’s and ’s constant);
2. Coexistence requires a stable equilibrium point;
3. Migration is unimportant;4. The effect of competition is instantaneous;5. Competition is the only important biological
interaction.
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Diatom Competition – multiple resources