Competition in Animals and Plants

Readings

Competitive Exclusion Principle http://www.eoearth.org/article/Competitive_exclusion_principle

Resource Partitioning and Why It Matters
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/resource-partitioning-and-why-it-matters-17362658

Slideshow

http://www.slideshare.net/MarkMcGinley/competition-in-animals-and-plants

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course a full engaged student should be able to

1) discuss the relationship between the fundamental and realized niche

2) discuss some ways animals can partition niches

3) define and describe character displacement

4) discuss why plants and animals may not be able to partition niches in the same way

5) explain Tilman's R* model