Question

Lemmings are rodents that eat slow-growing moss. When lemming population density gets high, moss abundance decreases. Owls prey on lemmings when the lemmings are abundant, but shift their diet to eat other rodent species when lemmings are not abundant. Which description of the ecological interactions below is correct?

Answer 1

Answer ) The type of ecological interaction that is seen in the above question is

AMENSALISM

this shows the kind of relationship which occurs between the organisms of the different species in which one species of population is massively affected or distroyed while the others remain unaffected.

this is also known to be a negative ecological interaction such as competition, predation, parasitism unlike the positive interaction like Mutualism and commensalism.

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