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Ecology of interacting species (1/2)
Remark:
parasitoid!
Predation
+
A
-
B
Parasitism
+
A
Interspecific competition
B
Ecology of interacting species (2/2)
Competition
Mutualism
-
A
B
+
A
-
+
Interspecific competition
B
Gause’s paramecia
Paramecium caudatum
Paramecium aurelia
The resource
Bacillus pyocyaneus
Interspecific competition
Gause’s findings
Interspecific competition
Other Gause’s findings
Paramecia + Stylonychia pustulata
Interspecific competition
Grass-legume competition
(De Wit et al. 1966)
Panicum maximum
grass
Glycine javanica
legume
Interspecific competition
Nitrogen fixing bacteria
Rhizobium
nodules in a pea
plant
Bradyrhizobium japonicum
Rhizobium in common
bean nodules
Interspecific competition
Replacement diagrams
Panicum
Glycine
Results by
De Wit et al. 1966
Panicum
Glycine
Competitive exclusion
Competitive coexistence
Interspecific competition
Interspecific competition
Competition between diatoms (Tilman 1981)
Interspecific competition
Competition between diatoms (Tilman 1981)
Interspecific competition
Competition between terrestrial plants
Scabiosa
Rumex
Urtica
Deschampsia
Interspecific competition
Interspecific competition
Interspecific competition
Kinds of interspecific competition
Damselfish
Interference competition
Exploitative competition
A
B
A
Interspecific competition
-
+
R
-
+
B
Interference competition: examples
Grain pests
Interspecific competition
Angoumois grain moth
Tignola del grano
Sitotraga cerealella
Crombie 1945
Lesser grain borer
Coleottero cappuccino
Rhizopertha dominica
Interspecific competition
Sawtoothed grain beetle
Coleottero silvano
Oryzaephilus surinamensis
Lesser grain borer
Interspecific competition
Coleottero cappuccino
Rhizopertha dominica
Interference competition
Park’s experiments with Tribolium (1954)
Tribolium
castaneum
Interspecific competition
Species can coexist in nature even
when exploiting common resources...
(e.g. MacArthur’s warblers,1958)
Interspecific competition
The niche concept
• Pioneers (Grinnell, 1917; Elton, 1927)
• Fundamental
(without other coexisting species)
and realized niche
(with other species)
Interspecific competition
G. E. Hutchinson
niche = the set of biotic and abiotic factors that make it possible for a
species to survive, grow and reproduce
Food niches (Brown & Davidson 1977)
Interspecific competition
2-dimensional niches
J. SILVERTOWN, M. DODD and D. GOWING Journal of Ecology 2001 89, 428–
435
Interspecific competition
How to quantify a niche
exemplified by Roughgarden (1979)
Anolis aeneus
Anolis richardi
Utilization function
Niche
ui = probability that an individual feeds on a
type i resource in the unit time
the domain in which
the utilization function does not vanish
Niche position
ζ= mean value of utilized resources
Niche width
σ2 = variance of utilized resources
Interspecific competition
Utilization functions in hawks
Accipiter striatus
(sparviero bruno,
sharp-shinned
hawk)
u(z)
Accipiter gentilis (astore,
northern goshawk)
z
Accipiter cooperi (sparviero di
Cooper, Cooper's hawk )
Interspecific competition
Species packing
Myrmotherula
axillaris
Antbirds
Myrmotherula
menetriesii
Myrmotherula brachyura
Interspecific competition
Fundamental and realized niches
Interspecific competition
Competitive release
Melospiza
melodia
Interspecific competition
Ecological shift
C. indica
Interspecific competition
C. stephani
G. rufigula
Character
displacement
“the ghost of competition past”
Interspecific competition
Beaks and skulls in birds and mammals
Donnola, least weasel,
Ermellino, stoat, M.
M. nivalis
erminea
A. sylvaticus
S. tephronota
A. flavicollis
S. neumayer
C. parvulus C. psittacula C. pallidus
Interspecific competition
Competition between water snails
Hydrobia ulvae
Hydrobia ventrosa
Interspecific competition
a) Shell lengths in sympatry
b) Shell lengths in allopatry
c) Utilization functions in
sympatry
d) Utilization functions in
allopatry
Interspecific competition