Biol2343-lecture-17得克萨斯生态学课件.pptVIP

Ash covered trees New Background Problem: Birds are predators on these moths How do think selection influenced these moth populations? Background matching! This bring us back to the idea of coevolution: interactions involving reciprocal evolutionary adaptations in two species * * Predator advantage Prey advantage Predator advantage * * Predator advantage Prey advantage Predator advantage ? Coevolution may take the form of: 1) mutualism (both benefit) 2) predator-prey 3) parasite-host * Now we will look at the types of interactions The effects of species interactions on population