community interactions. what’s a community? all the living things in an area habitat: the place...
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Community interactions Community interactions
What’s a community?What’s a community?
All the living things All the living things in an areain an area
HabitatHabitat: the place : the place an animal livesan animal lives
NicheNiche: an animal’s : an animal’s job, or function in job, or function in the communitythe community
What plants and animals live in an oak woodland community?
Rolls in a community Rolls in a community Producers:Producers: The organisms that The organisms that
can make food can make food – blue-green bacteria, plantsblue-green bacteria, plants
Consumers:Consumers: organisms that organisms that must eat other organismsmust eat other organisms– AnimalsAnimals
DecomposersDecomposers: Get their : Get their energy by breaking down energy by breaking down dead matterdead matter– bacteria, fungi, wormsbacteria, fungi, worms
Relationships in a communityRelationships in a community
Many different relationships are found between organisms in every community– predator/ prey– Symbiosis– Mutualism – Commensalisms– Parasitism
PredationPredation
One organism One organism eats anothereats another
The one being The one being eaten always eaten always diesdies
The predator The predator benefits the benefits the prey does notprey does not
+/- +/- Ladybug beetle preying on an aphid. (Source: Photo by Graham Shepard, Rothamsted Research)
SymbiosisSymbiosis
Any relationship in which Any relationship in which two species live closely two species live closely togethertogether
One example is lichen: One example is lichen: algae & fungus live as algae & fungus live as oneone
Mutualism Mutualism
a symbiotic a symbiotic relationship in which relationship in which both species benefitboth species benefit
cleaner fish & moray cleaner fish & moray eeleel
+/++/+
CommensalismsCommensalisms
Relationship where one organism Relationship where one organism benefits & the other is benefits & the other is neither neither harmed nor helped.harmed nor helped.
epiphytes and their host trees,epiphytes and their host trees, +/ 0 +/ 0
ParasitismParasitism One organism lives One organism lives at the expense ofat the expense of
anotheranother The parasite is helped, the host is The parasite is helped, the host is
harmedharmed +/- Tapeworm
life cycle
ReviewReview
1. What kind of relationship is it when both organisms benefit?
2. What is it called when one organism benefits and the other is not effected?
3. What is this picture an example of?