Question

Nuthatches and brown creepers are birds which eat insects that hide in the furrows of bark in hardwood trees. The creeper searches for insects by hunting from the bottom of the tree trunk to the top, whereas the nuthatch searches from the top of the trunk down. These hunting behaviors best illustrate which of the following ecological concepts?

Answer 1

Answer:

This are our options to complete the question

-bottom-up and top-down hypotheses

-competitive exclusion

-keystone species

-resource partitioning

-character displacement

The CORRECT ANSWER IS resource partitioning.

Explanation:

Resource partitioning is the division of certain limited resources by species to eliminate competition in an ecological niche in order to allow easy coexisting with one another

The creeper searches for insects by hunting from the bottom of the tree trunk to the top, whereas the nuthatch searches from the top of the trunk down to eliminate competition and allow for peaceful coexisting between them

Answer 2

Answer:

resource partitioning

Explanation:

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