ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Species Richness, Pollination, Biological Specificity
23 May 2014
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In this chapter, which also overlaps with the community ecology lecture, the relationship between primate species and other species in the ecosystem are discussed. These other species could be sympatric primates, other competitors, predators, prey, parasites, plants, etc. Box 11. 1 addresses the role of parasites as an important force of natural selection acting on primates under different conditions. The book also explains how the negative effects of interspecies competition are reduced through niche divergence, which was discussed in lecture and illustrated in the video 3 monkeys. Polyspecific associations, while undoubtedly creating increased competition, can also have benefits to the different species through improved foraging and predator protection (foraging benefits & predator protection). Be familiar with terms in bold, such as conspecific, biomass, and assemblage. The predator-prey relationship between chimpanzees and colobus monkeys is discussed again in this chapter, in the regular text and in box 11. 2. Predators and primates as prey augment what was covered in class.
