Question

Two species of buttercup are found in the same field in South Dakota, but they emerge at different times: One species emerges and flowers in early spring, and the other species does not emerge until late summer, after the first species has set seed. This is an example of

Answer 1

Answer: Resource partitioning

Explanation: Resource partitioning is the situation where more than one group of living organisms consisting of identical individuals eligible for sharing genes distributes out nutrition, free area, sleeping areas that exist at the same time or the same area. This usually happens when a group of living organisms consisting of identical individuals eligible for sharing genes separate a role taken by a category of organisms within its neighborhood to prevent competition for food and other aids. However, creatures and plants may develop gradually to give birth to offspring at distinct times of the year, eat food at a distinct point of time, or utilize a distinct portion of a woodland or distinct distance of a lake.

Answer 2

Answer:

Resource Partitioning .

Explanation:

The ability of  two organisms of the same species, in the same ecological niche of  limited  resources,  to avoid competition for the limited resources and co-exit with one another with  the limited resources available  is called  Resource Partition.Thus  the two  buttercup species on the same field(niche) flowered at different periods to ration the limited resources(insect pollinators, soil nutrients, space,) available.

It is applicable  to  habitat and food resources.It gives room for long term co-existence  of similar species of organisms,and prevent extinction of  disadvantaged species.

It provides insights to how resources in  an ecosystem is used a particular species of organism, and the effect of removal  a specie of organism on the allocation of resources available.