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Intraspecific
- Intraspecific Competition
- Behaviour
- Agonistic
- Aggressive
- Social dominance
- Used by many species that live in social groups
- Hierarchy that allows individuals to know their place
- Individuals at the top have access to lots of resources
- While those at the bottom have a chance to move up
- Usually established at the beginning of the
organisms lives through fights but if a
newcomer joins, opportunity to move up
- Competition
- Mates
- Gametes
- Sperm
- Egg
- Energy cost per gamete
- Low
- High
- Amount made
- Many
- Few
- Reproductive interest
- Fertilise as many eggs as possible
- Ensure the sperm that fertilises the egg is of the highest quality
- Territory
- Area occupied by an animal
and defended against others
- Territorial defense
- 1. Keep out signal
- E.g. scent of urine
- 2. Threat Display
- E.g. making themselves bigger -
cat puffing out their fur
- 3. Fighting
- Adaptive Advantage
- Benefits within territory e.g food,
shelter, breeding/mating area
- Costs
- Energy and time spent in it's defense
- Between organisms of the SAME species
- Intraspecific Co-operation
- Reproductive Strategies
- K - selection
- Characteristics
- Large size of organism
- Energy used to make each individual is high
- Few offspring are produced
- Late maturity, often after a
prolonged period of parental care
- Long life expectancy
- Individuals can reproduce more
than once in their lifetime
- Type I or Type II survivorship
pattern: individuals live to the
near maximum of their lifespan
- Attempt to ensure the survival
of their offspring by investing
time in them, instead of lots
- Stable environment, density
dependant interactions
- Adaptive Advantages
- r - selection
- Characteristics
- Small size of organism
- Energy used to make individuals is low
- Many offspring are produced
- Early maturity
- Short life expectancy
- Each individual only reproduces once
- Type III survival pattern:
Most individuals die within
a short amount of time but
a few live much longer
- Creates an abundance of offspring with
the hopes that a few will make it
- Adaptive Advantage
- Unstable environment, density independent
- r ____._________._________.______.________.__________._________._________._______.____ K
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- Courtship
- Parental Care
- All about passing on alleles into the gene pool
- Group membership
- Pros
- Safety
- Specific roles within groups
- Dilution effect
- One predator and 100 people in a population, there is a 1 in
100 chance of being preyed on, rather than one predator
and one individual, there is a 1/1 chance of preyed on
- Confusion effect
- If a predator approaches a group, they gap it in lots of different
directions therefore resulting in the predator becoming confused
- Mating
- Mates availability
- Extra protection for young
- Learning opportunities for young
- Hunting ease
- Saving energy
- Decreased exposure to elements
- Aerodynamics
- Cons
- Intraspecific competition
- More visible for predation
- Spread of disease
- Generally intraspecific,
organisms of the same species