amensalism
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
amensalism (uncountable)
- (ecology) A form of symbiosis in which one species is harmed or impeded and the other is unaffected.
- 2001, J.N. Kraeuter, Biology of the Hard Clam, page 426:
- Trophic group amensalism in the form of the broadened mobile vs. sessile distinction also plays an important part in the Woodin (1976) general model of how adult-larval interactions structure soft-sediment communities at high density.
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form of symbiosis in which one species is harmed or impeded and the other is unaffected
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