Ecological interactions by 45 Nirosha Paul Natural science https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg en-us 2021-07-31 16:52:35 UTC 2024-12-16 18:22:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the host) and parasitoidism (which always does, eventually). It is distinct from scavenging on dead prey, though many predators also scavenge; it overlaps with herbivory, as seed predators and destructive frugivores are predators. niroshapaul1997 https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665610736

]]> 2021-07-31 16:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665610736 niroshapaul1997 https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614017 Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host causing th  some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.]]> 2021-07-31 17:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614017 niroshapaul1997 https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614443 Competition is an interaction between organism specie  in which both the organisms or species are harmed. Limite  supply of at least one resource (such as food, water, and territory) used by both can be a factor. Competition both within and between species an important topic in ecology, especially community ecology.Competition is one of many interacting biotic and abioti  factors that affect community structure. Competition among members of the same species is known as intraspecific competition,while competition between individuals of different species is known as interspecific competition ]]> 2021-07-31 17:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614443 niroshapaul1997 https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614689 Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more specie  where each species has a net benefit.Mutualism is a common type of ecological interaction. Prominent examples include most vascular plants engaged in mutualistic interactions with mycorrhizae, flowering plants being pollinated by animals, vascular plants being dispersed by animals, and corals with zooxanthellae, among many others. Mutualism can be contrasted with interspecifi competition, in which each species experiences reduced fitness, and exploitation, or parasitism, in which one species benefits at the "expense" of the other.]]> 2021-07-31 17:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614689 niroshapaul1997 https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614917 Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction   (symbiosis) in which members of one species   gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed. This is in contrast with mutualism, in which both organisms benefit from each other; amensalism, where one is harmed while the other is unaffected; parasitism, where one is harmed and the other benefits, and parasitoidism, which is similar to parasitism but the parasitoids has a free-living state and instead of just harming its host it eventually ends up killing it. ]]> 2021-07-31 17:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/niroshapaul1997/qizzohx310e9ztvg/wish/1665614917