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Zoology · Ch 11 — Organisms and Population

Amensalism

11.12.1

Amensalism

Amensalism is scored (--, 0): one species is actively harmed by the interaction while the other neither benefits nor loses anything from it. This pattern typically arises when a large, powerful organism incidentally harms much smaller or weaker organisms simply by going about its own business — the chapter's example is small organisms being crushed or destroyed underfoot as elephants move through their habitat, where the elephant gains not …