Resource Partitioning competing species are more likely to coexist when they use resources in different ways.
Resource Partitioning among the species in a
community reduces competition and increases species richness. The Power of PowerPoint | thepopp.com 3 The Power of PowerPoint | thepopp.com 4 COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION LIMITING SIMILARITY Differentiated species niches Need critical threshold of to be coexistance. diffrentiation niches.
COMPETITIVE RELEASE CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT
Absence of competitor. Niche contraction due to competition result in morphologcal character change.
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The Power of PowerPoint | thepopp.com 6 Probably refuge is the term for whereby competitive S PAT I A L A N D T E M P O R A L interactions are curtailed by the limited co-occurrence of HETEROGENETY competitors in patchy environment.
APPARENT Competition is the interaction between two prey species that
COMPETITION were competing and they utilize entirely different resource.
competition caused by a common predator occurs between
ENEMY-FREE two species, they may esacape the impact of the predator SPACE by escaping from the vicinity of the other prey species.