blog #9

Define the different forms of community interaction: competition, commensalism, mutualism, predation, parasitism Give an example and a picture for each

competition: interaction in which organisms of the same or different species attempt to use the same
                   ecological resource in the same place at the same time.

 
mutalism: symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship.

 

Predation: interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism.

 

Parasitism: one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host