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Title: Community Ecology


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Community Ecology
  • Chapter 47

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Outline
  • Diversity and Composition Models
  • Island Biogeography
  • Habitat and Ecological Niche
  • Competition Between Populations
  • Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Symbiotic Relationships
  • Community Development
  • Community Diversity

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Community Concept
  • A community is an assemblage of populations
    interacting with one another within the same
    environment.
  • Composition is a listing of various species in
    the community.
  • Diversity includes both species richness and
    species diversity.

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Diversity and Composition Models
  • Gleason - Individualistic Model
  • Each population in community is there because its
    own particular abiotic requirements are met by a
    particular habitat.
  • Clements - Interactive Model
  • Community is the highest level of organization.
  • Dependent on biotic interactions.

5
Island Biogeography
  • MacArthur and Wilson developed a general model of
    island biogeography to explain and predict the
    effects of distance from the mainland and size of
    an island on community diversity.
  • Island size and distance from population source
    affects species diversity.

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Model of Island Biogeography
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Community Structure
  • Competition for limited resources between two
    species has a negative effect on the abundance of
    both species.
  • Predation and parasitism are expected to increase
    the abundance of the predator and parasite at the
    expense of the abundance of the prey and its host.

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Habitat and Ecological Niche
  • Habitat is the area an organism lives and
    reproduces in.
  • Ecological niche is the role an organism plays in
    its community, including its habitat and its
    interactions with other organisms.
  • Fundamental niche - All conditions under which
    the organism can survive.
  • Realized niche - Set of conditions under which it
    exists in nature.

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Feeding Niches for Wading Birds
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Competition Between Populations
  • Interspecific competition occurs when members of
    different species try to utilize a resource in
    limited supply.
  • Competitive Exclusion Principle - No two species
    can occupy the same niche at the same time.
  • Resource Partitioning decreases competition.
  • Can lead to character displacement.

11
Competition Between Barnacle Species
12
Character Displacement in Galápagos Finches
13
Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Predation occurs when one living organism, the
    predator, feeds on another, the prey.
  • Presence of predators can decrease prey
    densities, and vice-versa.

14
Lynx-Snowshoe Hare Interactions
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Prey Defenses
  • Prey defenses are mechanisms that thwart the
    possibility of being eaten by a predator.
  • Spines
  • Tough Epidermis
  • Poisonous Chemicals
  • Camouflage
  • Bright Coloration
  • Flocking Behavior

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Camouflage in the Anglerfish
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Mimicry
  • Mimicry occurs when one species resembles another
    that possesses an overt antipredator defense.
  • Batesian - Mimic lacks defense of the organism it
    resembles.
  • Müllerian - Mimic shares same protective defense.

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Symbiotic Relationships
  • Symbiosis refers to interactions in which there
    is a close relationship between members of two
    populations.
  • Parasitism
  • Parasite derives nourishment from a host, and may
    use host as habitat and mode of transmission.
  • Endoparasites
  • Ectoparasites

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Commensalism
  • Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which
    one species is benefited and the other is neither
    benefited nor harmed.
  • Remoras and Sharks
  • Many examples may turn out to be mutualism or
    parasitism.
  • Amount of harm or benefit two species do to one
    another is partially determined by the
    investigator.

20
Mutualism
  • Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship in which
    both members of the association benefit.
  • Often help organisms obtain food or avoid
    predation.
  • Bacteria in human intestinal tact.
  • Need not be equally beneficial to both species.
  • Cleaning Symbiosis

21
Mutualism Between Bullhorn Acacia and Ants
22
Cleaning Symbiosis
23
Community Development
  • Ecological Succession
  • A change involving a series of species
    replacements in a community following a
    disturbance.
  • Primary Succession occurs in areas where there is
    no soil formation.
  • Secondary Succession begins in areas where soil
    is present.
  • Pioneer Species

24
Secondary Succession in a Forest
25
Succession Models
  • Facilitation Model
  • Succession in a particular area will always lead
    to the same type of community.
  • Climax Community
  • Each stage facilitates invasion and replacement
    by organisms of the next stage.

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Succession Models
  • Inhibition Model
  • Colonists hold onto their space and inhibit
    growth of other plants until the colonists are
    damaged or die.
  • Tolerance Model
  • Different types of plants can colonize an area
    at the same time.
  • Chance determine which seeds arrive first.

27
Community Diversity
  • Community stability can be recognized in three
    ways.
  • Persistence through time.
  • Resistance to change.
  • Recovery once a disturbance has occurred.

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Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
  • Moderate amounts of disturbances at moderate
    frequency are required for a high degree of
    community diversity.
  • If widespread disturbances occur frequently,
    diversity will be limited.

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Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
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Predation, Competition, and Biodiversity
  • In certain communities, predation by a particular
    species reduces competition and increases
    diversity.
  • Predators that regulate competition and maintain
    community diversity are referred to as keystone
    predators.
  • Introduction of exotic species into a new area
    may lead to unbridled competition and resultant
    reduction in biodiversity.

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Review
  • Diversity and Composition Models
  • Island Biogeography
  • Habitat and Ecological Niche
  • Competition Between Populations
  • Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Symbiotic Relationships
  • Community Development
  • Community Diversity

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