BIOL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Commensalism, Bowerbird, Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
16 Nov 2016
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Some worker ants, one with giant mandibles is a killer ant. Do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)ests a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t li(cid:448)e i(cid:374) the sa(cid:373)e pla(cid:272)e for lo(cid:374)g: live in bivouac, made of their own bodies. Travel in a column containing hundreds of thousands. Might be as long as the size of odette 104. Then they spread out into the fan shape will spread out, so there is no more than 2 ant width apart from each other. Find something to eat: take down a scorpion some rip it apart, some hold it down. Where ever you find these ants, you find other organisms along with it. Do(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)tually eat a(cid:374)ts, (cid:271)ut use the ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)e of a(cid:374)ts to pro(cid:448)ide the(cid:373) for food. Community: a group of organisms that live together at the same place and time and interact directly or indirectly. A community includes all of the organisms present animals, plants, fungi, bacteria. Changes in environmental factors, called environmental gradients, often correspond to community changes.
