Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 13

Define interspecific competition, predation, parasitism, mutalism , and commensalism , and give an example of each. Describe and give an example resource partitioning and explain how it can increase species diversity. Explain how each of these species interactions can affect the population sizes of species in ecosystem. Distinguish between a predator and a prey , and give an example of each. What is a predator-prey relationship ?