Multiple Choice
Which statement is an example of commensalism?
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51. Community Ecology
Introduction to Community Interactions
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Introduction to Community Interactions
- Multiple ChoiceUnder which of the following circumstances would interspecific competition be most obvious?1175views
- Multiple ChoiceThe niche of an animal is __________.1352views1rank
- Multiple ChoiceWhen goats were introduced to an island off the California coast, the goats inhabited the same areas and ate the same plants as the native deer. The deer population dwindled and finally disappeared. This is an example of __________.1253views
- Multiple ChoiceFlounder is a type of fish that looks like the seafloor. This is an example of __________.1229views
- Multiple ChoiceThe flower fly resembles a honeybee, but the flower fly has no stinger. This is an example of what natural phenomenon?1007views
- Multiple ChoiceThe poison-arrow frogs Dendrobates of tropical America are all brightly colored and have very similar patterns. Although each species is distasteful to predators and all possess toxic skin secretions, some of the species live quite separately from the others. The adaptive relationship among these species is best termed __________.729views
- Multiple ChoiceCertain species of acacia trees in Central and South America have hollow thorns that house stinging ants, which attack anything that touches the tree. The ants feed on nutrients produced by the acacias. This is an example of __________.800views
- Multiple ChoiceWhat is the key difference between a dominant species and a keystone species?3023views
- Multiple ChoiceA species of malaria-carrying mosquito lives in a forest in which two species of monkeys, A and B, coexist. Species A is immune to malaria, but species B is not. The malaria-carrying mosquito is the chief food for a particular kind of bird in the forest. If all these birds were suddenly eliminated by hunters, which of the following would be an immediately observable consequence?1366views
- Textbook Question
Fill in the blanks in the table below summarizing the interspecific interactions in a community.
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What is niche differentiation?
a. The evolution of traits that reduce niche overlap and competition
b. Interactions that allow species to occupy their fundamental niche
c. The degree to which the niches of two species overlap
d. The claim that species with the same niche cannot coexist
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Compare and contrast the species interactions of mutualism, predation, and competition.
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The principle of competitive exclusion states that
a. Two species cannot coexist in the same habitat.
b. Competition between two species always causes extinction or emigration of one species.
c. Two species that have exactly the same niche cannot coexist in a community.
d. Two species will stop reproducing until one species leaves the habitat.
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The relationship between corals and the photosynthetic protists they harbor is an example of
a. Commensalism.
b. Competition.
c. Consumption.
d. Mutualism
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