Chapter 44.3, Problem 2CC

Summary Introduction

To write:

Competition and mutualism feature is more prominent in facilitation.

Introduction:

Inhibition  is the complete abolition of or the decrease in the extent or rate of an action or process.

Facilitation  is a model of succession. A method in which one or more species alter the environment, making it more appropriate for invading one or more other species is termed as facilitation succession. To study the succession, early ecologists thought that this procedure was predominant; it was only the original model.

Due to the aggregation of a vast number of individuals of species at a limited place, and this develops the competition for nutrition and space. The species which fail to compete with other species are ultimately discarded. Competition occurs usually between members of the equal trophic level.

Mutualism  is a relationship or connection between two or more than two individuals of different species in which all are benefited by one another. The individuals involved in mutualism are capable of existing independently. It is obligatory or obligate symbiosis. It occurs between two animal species (e.g. the tick bird and the rhinoceros), two plant species (e.g. the threadlike fungi and photosynthesizing algae), between an animal and a plant species (e.g. pollination of flowers by insects).