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Another of the videos in
the environmental science
series that is available
through our internet
publishing partner,
Arts and Academic Publishing is
entitled Species Competition.
It begins by
exploring community assembly:
how it is that
particular physical environments
come to be occupied
by particular
groups of species. It
then examines how species
within such communities
might come into
competition for such resources
as food and living
space.
The video then goes on
to explore ideas about
discrete communities as
opposed to communities
of environmental gradients,
where assemblages
of species gradually pass
from one to another. It
examines in more detail
the types of environmental
gradients that
occur along an ordinary
New England wooded
hillside.
The video goes farther
afield in examination of
niche overlap and instances
of inter– and
intra-specific competition,
looking at examples
not only from New
England but also from
tropical regions.
This is one of several topics covered in the latest
Bird Conservation Research newsletter. In addition, it reports the latest news on the
forest bird survey of southern New England and on the ongoing search for the
Eskimo Curlew.
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