Talk:Competition (biology)

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 January 2019 and 10 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mgregory611.

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Merge discussion for Scramble competition
An article that you have been involved in editing, Scramble competition, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. MATThematical (talk) 04:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Scramble competition talks about contest competition and competition in general. The article is fairly short and perhaps would be best contained here. In addition, this topic is not even mentioned in this page. MATThematical (talk) 04:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Other options might be to merge it with intraspecific competition, which right now is an even smaller article that doesn't even link to scramble competition. MATThematical (talk) 04:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Proposed change to opening sentence
The opening sentence refers to competition being related to fitness. But, what about animals where fitness is often irrelevant to them, e.g. farm animals, laboratory animals, companion animals, some zoo animals? This whole article, in my opinion, needs tweaking to take into account these animals, but let's start with the first sentence. In the article Competition the first sentence reads "Competition in biology, ecology, and sociology, is a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc., for territory, a niche, or a location of resources, for resources and goods, for prestige, recognition, awards, mates, or group or social status, for leadership; it is the opposite of cooperation" With minor tweaking, this would be an entirely appropriate opening sentence for the present article, perhaps with a follow-up qualification that in natural populations, competition is usually related to an increase or decrease in fitness.DrChrissy (talk) 17:42, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the kind of competition discussed here applies mainly to "wild" populations of organisms. Animals in the situations you describe are generally not faced with a limiting resource. Tdslk (talk) 02:37, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes I agree with you to a large extent, but should this not be pointed out to the reader? Farm, zoo, laboratory and companion animals often do compete because they do not realise that resources are effectively NOT limited, for example, two dogs given 2 types of food might compete for the more nutrient-rich food even though the other food type is perfectly adequate to maintain its (potential) fitness. However, sometimes resources are limited for these animals, e.g. escape from perceived predators (humans, sheepdog).  In this case, the animals will compete for the best (limited)escape positions.  Laboratory mice have limited space for territory formation and as a consequence are often highly aggressive toward each other.  Perhaps the first sentence or opening paragraph simply needs to point out that the relationship between competition and fitness only relates to wild populations.DrChrissy (talk) 16:58, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Reverted redirect
Although this article has serious issues, lack of sourcing is not a reason for redirecting it, given that this is an incredibly important topic. Therefore, I have reverted the redirect. I am happy to discuss this. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:41, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Preliminary Bibliography - Student Editor
Hello, I am a student editor who will be revising the Competition (biology) article throughout the semester. Seeing that the article needs more material and sourcing on size symmetric competition and intraspecific competition, I assembled a list of sources that I hope to use in improving the article. I also expect to add more on the development of evolutionary stable strategies and the hawk-dove game to better explain competitive interactions. Any feedback on the sources would be highly appreciated.

- Barash, D. P. (2004). The survival game: How game theory explains the biology of cooperation and competition. Macmillan.

- Chu, C.-J., Weiner, J., Maestre, F. T., Wang, Y.-S., Morris, C., Xiao, S., Yuan, J.-L., Du, G.-Z., & Wang, G. (2010). Effects of positive interactions, size symmetry of competition and abiotic stress on self-thinning in simulated plant populations. Annals of Botany, 106(4), 647–652.

- Craine, J. M., & Dybzinski, R. (2013). Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light. Functional Ecology, 27(4), 833–840.

- del Río, M., Condés, S., & Pretzsch, H. (2014). Analyzing size-symmetric vs. Size-asymmetric and intra-vs. Inter-specific competition in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) mixed stands. Forest Ecology and Management, 325, 90–98.

- DeMalach, N., Zaady, E., Weiner, J., & Kadmon, R. (2016). Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 104(4), 899–910.

- Donald, C. M. (1951). Competition among pasture plants. I. Intraspecific competition among annual pasture plants. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 2(4), 355–376.

- Hines, W. G. S. (1987). Evolutionary stable strategies: A review of basic theory. Theoretical Population Biology, 31(2), 195–272.

- Klomp, H. (1964). Intraspecific competition and the regulation of insect numbers. Annual Review of Entomology, 9(1), 17–40.

- Knillmann, S., Stampfli, N. C., Beketov, M. A., & Liess, M. (2012). Intraspecific competition increases toxicant effects in outdoor pond microcosms. Ecotoxicology, 21(7), 1857–1866.

- Losos, J. B. (2000). Ecological character displacement and the study of adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97(11), 5693–5695.

- Mirmirani, M., & Oster, G. (1988). Competition, kin selection, and evolutionary stable strategies. In Multicriteria Optimization in Engineering and in the Sciences (pp. 187–223). Springer.

Thanks! --Leafcutter Ant (talk) 03:02, 19 October 2021 (UTC)