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Interspecific competition: competition between species.

Intraspecific competition: competition between individuals of the same species.

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is the division of limited resources by species to help avoid competition in an ecological niche. In any environment, organisms compete for limited resources, so organisms and different species have to find ways to coexist with one another.

examples:

anole lizards found on the island of Puerto Rico

birds, such as hummingbirds.

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In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gausses' law, is a proposition named for Georgy Gauss that two species competing for the same limited resource cannot coexist at constant population values .

Examples:

two types of single-celled microorganisms, Paramecium Aurelia and Paramecium caudatum.

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Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit.

Examples:

oxpecker (a kind of bird) and the rhinoceros or zebra.

The oxpeckers get food and the beasts get pest control.

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Commensalism, in biology, a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter.

examples:

is a golden jackal (the commensal) following a tiger (the host) to feed on leftovers from its kills.

Many lichens and mosses are commensal with trees.

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Parasitism, relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism.

examples:

Fleas or ticks that live on dogs and cats are parasites.

organisms can parasitize humans including fungi, leeches, lice, ticks, mites, tapeworms, protozoa, viruses, and helminths.

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In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and promote the reproduction of the organism that does the killing, the predator, to the detriment of the organism being consumed, the prey. Predation influences organisms at two ecological levels.

examples:

wolves hunting moose.

owls hunting mice.

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Mimicry, in biology, phenomenon characterized by the superficial resemblance of two or more organisms that are not closely related taxonomically.

examples:

Milk snake.

false coral snakes.

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Herbivory is the consumption of plant material by animals, and herbivores are animals adapted to eat plants. As in predator-prey interactions, this interaction drives adaptations in both the herbivore and the plant species it eats.

examples:

antelope.

bison.

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