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Title: What are two differences between intraspecific and interspecific competition?
Post by: Lorraine love on Apr 27, 2017

What are two differences between intraspecific and interspecific competition?

Title: Re: What are two differences between intraspecific and interspecific competition?
Post by: BioWolf on Apr 27, 2017

(http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/marytsadi/images/competition2.jpg)

Interspecific competition is a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resources in an ecosystem (e.g. food or living space)

Intraspecific competition is an interaction in population ecology, whereby members of the same species compete for limited resources.

Title: Re: What are two differences between intraspecific and interspecific competition?
Post by: habiba on Apr 27, 2017

Good answer. Just to add, when these organisms belong to the same species it is referred to as intraspecific competition. When it occurs between individuals of different species it is interspecific competition.