Intraspecific Competition

Terms:
competition, intraspecific and interspecific competition, interference and exploitative competition, fitness, asymmetrical competition

asymmetrical competition: Competition that results in skewed higher fitness to one segment of a population at the expense of the remainder of the population.

competition: The active demand for a limiting resource shared by two or more individuals or species.

contest competition: When intraspecific competition depletes a resource and it affects some members of species more than others.

exploitative competition: When two competing individuals have indirect contact and conflict over shared limited resources.

fitness: The ability of an individual to pass on its genetic contribution to future generations.

interference competition: When two competing individuals have direct contact and conflict, either physical or chemical, over shared limited resources.

interspecific competition: When individuals of different species affect the growth and reproduction of each other by sharing limited resources.

intraspecific competition: When individuals within the same species affect the growth and reproduction of other members of that species by sharing limited resources.

scramble competition: When intraspecific competition depletes a resource and it affects all members of a species equally.