Lecture Outline: Interspecific Competition

• cours magistral - matière potentielle : outline

1Lecture Outline: Interspecific Competition •Review of key concepts •Theoretical models: Lotka-Volterra equations •Competition-dispersal tradeoffs and coexistence •Apparent competition •Case study: desert rodents •Case studies: interference competition between canids •Competition in variable environments Interspecific Competition •An interaction between members of two or more species that, as a consequence either of exploitation of a shared resource or of interference related to that resource, has a negative effect on fitness-related characteristics of at least one of the species (Wiens 1989).

• coyote territories harrison
• small granivores
• territories
• equilibrium for species
• species predator
• •general pattern for spatial displacement of smaller species by larger ones
• volterra competition model
• resource
• species