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Among American warblers, several different species often live in the same spruce trees and eat caterpillars. However, each species reproduces at a slightly different time of year and each species also forages at different areas within the tree canopy. These differences in foraging behaviors and reproduction is an example of

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The correct answer is - Resource partitioning.

Explanation:

Resource partitioning is dividing the limiting resources according to species to avoid competition in a particular niche for the resources. In any ecosystem different species compete for the resources, to deal with this competition organisms have to find ways to co-exist with one other.

Resource partitioning helps in the coexistence of several species that make a living in common ways in different ways such as reproduce slightly different time of year and others.

Thus, the correct answer is - resource partitioning.

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