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  2. Biological interaction - Wikipedia

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    Predation is a short-term interaction, in which the predator, here an osprey, kills and eats its prey. Short-term interactions, including predation and pollination, are extremely important in ecology and evolution. These are short-lived in terms of the duration of a single interaction: a predator kills and eats a prey; a pollinator transfers ...

  3. Predation - Wikipedia

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    Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the host ) and parasitoidism (which always does, eventually).

  4. Lotka–Volterra equations - Wikipedia

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    The Lotka–Volterra equations, also known as the Lotka–Volterra predator–prey model, are a pair of first-order nonlinear differential equations, frequently used to describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact, one as a predator and the other as prey.

  5. Predation rates - Wikipedia

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    In order for predation to occur, a predator and its prey must encounter one another. A low concentration of prey decreases the likelihood of such encounters. The prey encounter rate is determined by the abundance of organisms and a predator’s ability to locate its prey [2]. Covering more territory increases the likelihood that a predator will ...

  6. Consumer–resource interactions - Wikipedia

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    Consumer–resource interactions are the core motif of ecological food chains or food webs, [1] and are an umbrella term for a variety of more specialized types of biological species interactions including prey-predator (see predation), host-parasite (see parasitism), plant-herbivore and victim-exploiter systems. These kinds of interactions ...

  7. Plant–animal interaction - Wikipedia

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    Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. There are carnivorous plants as well as herbivores and carnivores that consume plants and animals, respectively.

  8. Mutualism (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit. [1] Mutualism is a common type of ecological interaction. Prominent examples are: the nutrient exchange between vascular plants and mycorrhizal fungi, the fertilization of flowering plants by pollinators,

  9. Ecological network - Wikipedia

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    Once ecological networks are described as transportation networks where the food flows along the predation links, one can extend the concept of allometric scaling to them. In doing so one could find that spanning trees are characterized by universal scaling relations, thereby suggesting that ecological network could be the product of an ...