Synecological optimum

The synecological optimum of a species is the preferred range of its occurrence in communities (technical term: biocenoses ), related to environmental factors and under the influence of competition from individuals of other species (technical term interspecific competition ).

The synecological optimum is thus the preferred area of ​​the actual occurrence of the species, not the most favorable area for its physiology. This is known as the auto-ecological optimum . A species with greater ecological potency finds its synecological optimum in the vicinity of its auto- ecological optimum and thus possibly displaces other species from their auto- ecological optimum into suboptimal areas if they are close to one another.

See also

• Hohenheim groundwater experiment
• ecology
• Ecological niche

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• Matthias Schaefer: Dictionaries of Biology: Ecology. G. Fischer Verlag, Jena, 3rd edition 1992 (UTB Uni-Taschenbücher für Wissenschaft 430) ISBN 3-334-60362-8