© 1. Explain
the different types of competition (resource competition; interference
competition)
between the various species.
© 2. Discuss
an experiment that supports the competitive exclusion principle.
© 3. Discuss
the concepts of niche, niche breadth, resource partitioning
and specialization
that are used to explain how several species can exist in a community.
© 4. Discuss
the different forms of predation and how the natural prey population is
regulated by predation.
© 5. Discuss
³Why is the world green?² when there are so many animals eating away plants.
Please consider in your answer the means plants adopt to defend themselves
mechanically, or by chemicals, or by mutualistic associations.
© 6. Discuss
a well-known mutualistic relationship between fungi and plant roots
(mycorrhizae), see pp. 715-717, Raven and Johnson, 4th ed..
© 7. In addition
to those already discussed above, define the following concepts and
terms:
allelopathy; herbivory; insect parasitism; cannibalism; secondary metabolism;
mutualism; and compensatory growth.
• Outline of presentation :
For outline of presentation and for the legends of figures, see the
Handbook for the course "Biology 121 Notes, Spring, 1998, University of
Illinois, Plant Biology: Ecology and Organismic Plant Biology" by Govindjee,
Stipes Publishing, Champaign,IL.
© Slides
used in the class are to be found elsewhere on these Web pages.