Multiple Choice
These shorebirds illustrate niche partitioning;each species has a specialized bill that permits it to feed in ways that reduce competition with other shorebirds living in the community.How might a biologist explain niche partitioning?
A) Birds with compatible adaptations eventually find one another and establish mature communities.
B) By sharing a resource,each species is less abundant than if it were alone;natural selection will eventually produce a shorebird that can exploit the entire food resource.
C) These birds are coevolving;the adaptations each displays represent the response to directional selection pressure created by their competitors.
D) Highly diverse communities are more stable than those with low diversity;given enough time,the evolution of adaptations that reduce competition would be expected.
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