Types of Species Interactions
Introduction Have you ever wondered how different species benefit each other in an environment? Or how they harm each other? Or even how they don't have an effect at all on each other? Well that's what I am going to be talking about in this blog. We interact with different species all of the time. There are many types of interactions that affect an environment's food chain, biodiversity, and its whole way of life. All species interactions have 3 possible outcomes. They can either be negative, neutral, or positive. They can either benefit one another, harm one another, or have no effect at all on the species. Competition The first type of interaction that is very common between species is competition. Competition is an interaction in which birth, growth, and death depend on gaining a share of an environmental resource. It's an interaction of organisms that lead to a change in fitness when the organisms share the same resource. There are also three main forms of compet...