Community Ecology: Feel the Love - Crash Course Ecology #4

Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interactions are actually about side-stepping direct competition and instead finding ways to divvy up resources to let species get along. Feel the love? Table of Contents 1) Competitive Exclusion Principle 2:02 2) Fundamental vs. Realized Niche 3:48 3) Eco-lography / Resource Partitioning 5:25 4) Character Displacement 7:29 5) Mutualism 9:15 6) Commensalism 9:55 References http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/...    • Competitive Exclusion Principle   http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu... http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/... http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfor... http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/Mac... http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307... http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent59... http://www.eoearth.org/article/Commun... http://livingseas.org/2011/01/22/kill... http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pu... http://www.visitolympicpeninsula.org/... http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/... http://eol.org/pages/484359/overview http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/e... http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclop... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/dis... http://sites.sinauer.com/ecology2e/we... http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfor... http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/... Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at   / crashcourse   Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook -   / youtubecrashcourse   Twitter -   / thecrashcourse   Instagram -   / thecrashcourse   CC Kids:    / crashcoursekids