Types of Species Interactions

Competition

• Trees in the rainforest competing for light

• Desert plants competing for water

Predation

• One animal killing and eating another

• Owl eats mouse• Fox eats rabbit

Parasitism

• Raccoon Round worm

• Tick on a bird

Mutualism• Protist in the gut of a

termite help it digest wood.

• Anemone protects clownfish and eats its dead skin.

• Lichen is made up of Fungus and Algae. Fungus provides a home for the algae and the algae provides food for the fungus

Commensalism

• Lichen Growing on a tree

• Bird nest in a tree

• Cattle egret eat insects kicked up by cattle