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Contest competition
In ecology, contest competition refers to a situation where available resources, such as food and mates, are utilized by one or a few individuals, thus preventing development or reproduction of other individuals. It refers to a hypothetical situation in which several individuals stage a contest for which one eventually emerges victorious and has sole access to the resource. Contest competition is the opposite of scramble competition, a situation in which available resources are shared equally among individuals.
As contest competition allows the monopolization of resources, offspring will typically always be produced and survive until adulthood independent of the population size, resulting in stable population dynamics. This is in start contrast to scramble competition which can result in periodic or chaotic population dynamics. The Beverton-Holt model is often used to represent population dynamics arising from contest competition. This model, and few other well-known population models, can be explicitly derived from individual-level processes assuming contest competition and a random distribution of individuals among resources.[1]
Contest competition has been observed in a variety of species. For example, in mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei, higher ranking females had higher average food-site resident times and higher aggression and avoidance while eating than lower ranking females.[2] In white-faced monkeys, Cebus capucinus, regardless of aggression, avoidance, or sex, higher ranking monkeys had higher energy intake within their group.[3] For female Microcebus murinus groups, if the resource (fruit) could be monopolized, they would compete within their group for it.[4] In a controlled lab experiment with three parasitic wasp species (Dinarmus basalis, Anisopteromalus calandrae, and Heterospilus prosopidis) they found that between the first larvae in the host and the second, the larvae that would win depended on the time between them.[5] There was also a Nicholson-Bailey model made to partially explain the relationship between Heterospilus prosopidis and its host Callosobruchus maculatus.[6] Fitness gains for the winner of the contest is not always known, such as the case for the first two examples.
Other research in contest competition focus on what aspects are relevant for contest resolution.
See also
References
- ^ Brännström, Å; Sumpter, D.j.t (2005-10-07). "The role of competition and clustering in population dynamics". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272 (1576): 2065–2072. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3185. PMC 1559893. PMID 16191618.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ Grueter, Cyril C.; Robbins, Andrew M.; Abavandimwe, Didier; Vecellio, Veronica; Ndagijimana, Felix; Ortmann, Sylvia; Stoinski, Tara S.; Robbins, Martha M. (2016). "Causes, mechanisms, and consequences of contest competition among female mountain gorillas in Rwanda". Behavioral Ecology. 27 (3): 766–776. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv212. ISSN 1045-2249.
- ^ Vogel, Erin R. (2005-08-XX). "Rank differences in energy intake rates in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus: the effects of contest competition". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 58 (4): 333–344. doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0960-4. ISSN 0340-5443.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Dammhahn, Melanie; Kappeler, Peter M. (2009). "Scramble or contest competition over food in solitarily foraging mouse lemurs ( Microcebus spp.): New insights from stable isotopes". American Journal of Physical Anthropology: NA–NA. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21129.
- ^ Wai, Khin Mar; Fujii, Koichi (1990-06-XX). "Intraspecific larval competition among wasps parasitic of bean weevil larvae". Researches on Population Ecology. 32 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1007/BF02512591. ISSN 0034-5466.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Tuda, Midori; Iwasa, Yoh (1998-10-01). "Evolution of contest competition and its effect on host–parasitoid dynamics". Evolutionary Ecology. 12 (7): 855–870. doi:10.1023/A:1006550817371. ISSN 1573-8477.