Competition: Additional resources

Exploring interspecific competition
    Lotka-Volterra models of competition
1. An interactive tutorial for Lotka-Volterra model of interspecific competition can be found at:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Model/model06.html
Pay particular attention to steps 5, 6, 7 (these are steps devoted to the competition model). Step 6 includes an interactive model, where you can change values of carrying capacity and competition coefficients and see how it affects population growth. Highly recommended.

2. A more traditional explanation of the Lotka-Volterra model can be found at:
http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/bioed/bealsmodules/competition.html
This is an additional resource to your book and lectures: a slightly different way to explain the same thing.

3. Competition in lizards – this webpage nicely illustrates most important concepts in intraspecific competition using examples of lizards from genus Varanus
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/competition.html