How Do Different Species Interact with Each Other?

1. How Do Different Species Interact with Each Other?

2. An Organism’s Niche • Niche – unique role of a species within an ecosystem. • Includes the species’ home, environmental factors necessary for survival, & species interactions with other species. • Ex: A bison’s niche is being the largest grazing herbivores on American grasslands.

3. Niche vs. Habitat • The habitat is the location where the species lives while the niche the species’ interactions in & with the habitat. Niche Habitat

4. Interactions Between Two Species

5. Interactions Between Two Species

6. Competition

7. Interactions Between Two Species

8. Predation • What happens to the lynx population when the snowshoe hare population increases? • What happens to the snowshoe hare population when the lynx population declines?

9. Interactions Between Two Species

10. Parasitism

11. Interactions Between Two Species

12. Mutualism

13. Interactions Between Two Species

14. Commensalism

15. Symbiosis • Symbiosis is the living together of unlike organisms where at least one organism benefits. • Ex: Mutualism, Commensalism, & Parasitism