Community

A community is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. The individual living beings can be plant or animal; any species; any size. What characterizes a community is sharing and interaction in any number of ways. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs and a multitude of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the degree of adhesion within the mixture, but the definitive driver of community is that all individual subjects in the mix have something in common. This is even true in biological communities.

The nature of community

In biological terms, natural communities are formed based upon relationships. Whether surviving in salt water, fresh water or atop a geological substrate, living things of common species are attracted to each other, at least long enough to procreate, or the species would be no more. More often than not, communities of animal species obey a built-in mandate to gather together. Even wild animals of differing species know that they must depend on other species to survive, as is the case for predator and prey. The rules of community that are found in nature have preserved life on this planet to this day and will most likely stay in place for some time to come.

Related Topics:
Relationship - Salt water - Fresh water - Geological - Mandate - Wild - Planet

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