BIO 311D Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Character Displacement, Allopatric Speciation
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54. 1 community interactions are classified by whether they help, harm, or have no effect on the species involved. Ecologists call relationships between species in a community interspecific interactions. Interspecific interactions can affect the survival and reproduction of each species and the effects can be summarized as positive, negative, or no effect character displacement. Character displacement is a tendency for characteristics to be more divergent in sympatric populations of two species than in allopatric populations of the same two species. Predation refers to an interaction in which one species, the predator, kills and eats the other, the prey.
