NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS. PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS.
Populations, Communities, and Species Interaction Chapter 3.
Biological Communities and Species Interaction. Important Concepts: Critical Environmental Factors Adaptation Natural Selection Speciation Ecological.
Cunningham - Cunningham - Saigo: Environmental Science 7 th Ed. Biological Communities and Species Interaction Chapter 4.
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY Community Structure Depends on 4 factors : –Physical appearance –Species diversity –Species abundance –Niche structure.
Outcomes of Competition Niches of similar species may overlap. Two species cannot compete for the same limiting resource for long. eventually one species.
Biodiversity:
PARASITISM Parasitism is a species interaction that resembles predation in that one individual is harmed while the other benefits. However, in parasitism,
Chapter 5: Community Ecology
Ecological communities
Lesson 14: Biodiversity and Habitat Preservation
