Competition

• Compete for resources to survive
• Intraspecific = competition of the SAME species
• Interspecific = comp between different species
• Animals compete for:

  • food
  • mates
  • territory
• Plants compete for:

  • space
  • nutrients
  • light
• animal population affected by:

  • competition for food and water
  • number of predators
  • disease
  • pollution
• Don’t mention humans say PREDATORS
• plant population affected by:

  • competition for light , water, nutrients
  • number of herbivores
  • disease
  • pollution