How cooperation emerges in competing populations. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 07 / 160707131752.htm. Springer.

Social behavior like reaching a consensus is a matter of cooperation. However, individuals in populations often spontaneously compete and only cooperate under certain conditions. These problems ...

For many species, intraspecific competition has strong effects on how population size varies over time. At high density, growth is reduced, fecundity is suppressed, and survival is affected.

Like predation and competition, recognition of mutualisms' functional responses and consumer-resource interactions provides new insights into their density-dependent population dynamics.

The study, published in Ecology and led by Volker Rudolf, revealed that rising temperatures exacerbate competition within populations, ultimately leading to population crashes at higher temperatures.

Both mechanisms limit competition and genetic excess, but act through separate pathways. Pheromones are used by hermaphroditic roundworm species to cull explosions in male populations. Mating-induced ...