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| a powerful force in a community; one individual captures, kills and consumes another individual |
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| a harmless species resembles a poisonous or distasteful species |
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| a species interaction where one individual is harmed while the other individual benefits |
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| results from fundamental niche overlap |
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| a cooperative relationship in which both species derive some benefit |
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| an interaction in which one species benefits and the other is not affected |
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| the number of species a community contains |
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| relates the number of species in the community to the relative abundance of each species |
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| the gradual, sequential regrowth of species in an area |
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| the species that predominate early in succession; small, fast-growing, fast-reproducing |
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| stable end point of succession |
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