interorganismic
Interorganismic is an adjective used in biology to describe processes, interactions, or phenomena that occur between different organisms, as opposed to intraorganismic processes that occur within a single organism. The term is common in ecology, evolutionary biology, and studies of symbiosis and community dynamics, where attention is on how organisms influence each other's survival, reproduction, and behavior.
Interorganismic interactions span a wide range of relationships, including competition for resources, predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism,
In evolutionary theory, interorganismic selection describes selection pressures that arise from interactions among different organisms, such
Examples include predator–prey cycles, plant–pollinator partnerships, host–parasite dynamics, and coral–algae symbiosis. Studying interorganismic relationships helps explain
See also: interspecific interaction, coevolution, symbiosis, mutualism, parasitism, competition.