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Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interactions are actually about side-stepping direct competition and instead finding ways to divvy up resources to let species get along. Feel the love?

Table of Contents
1) Competitive Exclusion Principle 2:02
2) Fundamental vs. Realized Niche 3:48
3) Eco-lography / Resource Partitioning 5:25
4) Character Displacement 7:29
5) Mutualism 9:15
6) Commensalism 9:55

References
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/competitive_exclusion_principle.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbRPDGikcnc
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/ecological_niche.htm
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http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/MacArthur.html
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http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Community_ecology
http://livingseas.org/2011/01/22/killer-whales-stalk-greys/
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/beaches/pool.html
http://www.visitolympicpeninsula.org/tidepools.html
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/MacArthur's_Warblers.html
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.es.06.110175.000245

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