amensalism

English

Noun

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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Translations

form of symbiosis in which one species is harmed or impeded and the other is unaffected

Finnish: amensalismi (fi)
French: amensalisme (fr) m
Kazakh: өктемдік (öktemdik)

Occitan: amensalisme m
Portuguese: amensalismo m

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